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In 1979, about 30 mongooses were released on Japan’s Amami Oshima to control habu snakes; their population later grew to roughly 10,000 and threatened rare wildlife, but after decades of trapping Japan declared them eradicated in 2024

In a remarkable environmental achievement, Japan has announced the successful elimination of invasive small Indian mongooses, resolving a long-standing ecological dilemma on its UNESCO World Heritage site. The culmination of rigorous trapping, tracking, and monitoring efforts has set the stage for a revitalization of local wildlife populations, positioning this program…

The Times of India · Aug 21

The Battlegrounds of 1857: Visiting the Sites Where India's Uprising Was Suppressed and Forgotten

The Plaque Gets It WrongStand at the Bibighar well in Kanpur and read the memorial the British erected after 1857. It does not mention what happened to the Indian dead. It memorialises the British women and children killed there, frames the uprising as a mutiny, and presents the suppression that…

Times Life · Aug 21

Britain's best Jurassic fossil collection was sold to Abu Dhabi after UK museums could not raise the money to buy it

For decades, Dorset-based fossil hunter Chris Moore combed the cliffs and beaches around Lyme Regis and Charmouth, part of England's UNESCO-listed Jurassic Coast, gradually assembling a collection of 318 specimens spanning ichthyosaurs, fish and crustaceans, including fossils that could potentially represent species new to science. Under the region's fossil collecting…

The Times of India · Aug 20

Divar Island, Goa: The Ferry Ride That Takes You to a Village Tourism Left Alone

The crossing itself is the first thingThe ferry from Old Goa takes four minutes. Four minutes across the Mandovi river, and the noise of the highway simply stops. There are no ticket counters. You drive or walk on, the flat-bottomed boat moves, and by the time you step off on…

Times Life · Aug 18

Earthquake rocks Spanish tourist jewel Granada

MADRID - The cherished tourist city of Granada was in shock on Saturday after a rare 5.0-magnitude earthquake woke residents in the middle of the night and damaged buildings.

Bangkok Post · Aug 15

Ranked: These are the world’s best countries for retirees to travel to

Europe dominates the list of the best countries for retirees to travel to for offering transport discounts available to visitors, lots of age-rewarding experiences and Michelin-backed spots to dine at.

Euronews · Aug 14

Ukrainian cathedrals, Gaza’s archives, Iranian squares – modern war is systematically erasing human history

It is not enough now for war to kill, it must eradicate a people’s cherished and precious heritage too, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK · Aug 13

Azerbaijan bets on the pomegranate as its next big export

Azerbaijan is turning pomegranates, a fruit with 2,000 years of cultural history, into a global brand, with €48.2 million in exports and more than 200 cultivated varieties putting it in direct competition with Iran, Turkey and Spain

Euronews · Aug 13

Nilgiri Elephant Corridors: Why India's Largest Elephant Population Is Losing Its Migration Routes

The World's Largest Asian Elephant Population Lives HereThe Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, spanning Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Kerala, holds an estimated 6,000 to 8,000 Asian elephants, the single largest population of the species anywhere on earth. That number sounds like a conservation success. The reality is more complicated. Asian elephants (Elephas…

Times Life · Aug 13

Five years after Taliban takeover, 2.4 million Afghan girls still excluded from school: Unesco

An estimated 2.4 million Afghan girls remain excluded from secondary education, five years after the Taliban returned to power, according to a report by Unesco.

The Times of India · Aug 12