A bird flu outbreak is suspected in Yangbari village in Gongdue, Mongar after 30-40 chicks were reported dead from nine houses last month.

While the forest fire that had been burning in the two gewogs of Mongar for the last two days spread to a third gewog, Tongla in Kengkhar gewog yesterday, some 60 people were battling another fores

A forest fire that had started at dawn on March 31 near Resa in Saling gewog in Mongar was still raging as of last evening. Resa is a village at the south of Saling.

News editors from 18 Asian countries deliberated media’s role in fighting climate change in a two-day conference “Himalayan system in a changing climate future and media’s role” which ended yesterd

The Cabinet yesterday added six birds to the list of protected wild animals in Bhutan under the Forest and Nature Conservation Act.

The study, worth Nu 2M, World Wildlife Fund officials said would focus on the snow leopard population and their places of existence to help prioritise the best areas for conservation.

Changmey health assistant Karma Wangdi has an old patient of his to see in the evening.

National Glaciers Within the last three decades, glaciers of Bhutan shrank by 189sqkm, less than half the size of one of the country’s smallest dzongkhags, Pemagatshel.

Climate Change Of late, farmer Rinchen of Semtokha is seeing some strange behaviour in her garden.

Bumdeling Park, Sershong, Mongar 12 October, 2011 - A forest fire that has been burning for the past three days may have destroyed more than 500 acres of chirpine forests of the Bumdeling park in S