Plight and Protection of Oroqen Mosuku

Plight of the bumblebee

One group of insects highlight some of the potential economic damage that loss of biodiversity may entail for the future of human food crops.

Budget cuts and the plight of postdocs.

The plight of the pachyderms

Hidden assets: African forest elephants were only recently recognised as a separate species from savannah elephants. Their wooded habitat makes it harder to study their population dynamics and ensure their survival. (Photo: Vicki Fishlock.) Large herbivore species like mammoth and bison roamed the Earth during the Pleistocene (2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago), leaving their marks both in the foss...

The plight of the bees.

Some environmental issues polarize people, producing weary political stalemates of indecision and inaction. Others, however, grab hold of our most primeval instincts, causing us to reach deeply into our memories of childhood, and our first direct experiences with nature: the bumble bee nest we poked at with a stick; the man at the county fair with the bee beard. Those memories expand backward i...

Cow Slaughter - New Sight and Plight

The parliament and state legislatures derive their power to legislate under Article 246 of the Constitution of India, read with Schedule 7, which divides subject matters in terms of a union, state and concurrent list. The regulation of cow slaughter is understood to be a state subject-entry 15 of List II to the seventh schedule (which enumerates the state list) reads 'Preservation, protection a...