Animal Breeding

June 30, 2003: The day conservation policy could have changed

Usually, the Union ministry of environment and forests MoEF does manage to stick to its guns in the face of adversity, or even rationality. But June 30, 2003 has changed all that. In a media statement, the director general of forests declared that the M

Publication Date:

30/07/2003

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

12

Issue:

20030731

pp:

0

Tags:

Animal Breeding, Drugs, Government Of India (GOI)

India

It happened by sheer accident

More great discoveries in the realm of science get stumbled upon by the unprepared mind than untangled by methodical research. dna fingerprinting, which has revolutionised forensic science since its development in the mid 1980s,

Publication Date:

14/04/2003

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20030415

pp:

0

Tags:

Animal Breeding, Genetic Resources, Technology, Genetic Engineering, Research, India

India

Sri Lanka s Tree Frogs

In 1957, Sri Lankan naturalist Parakrama Kirtisinghe published a monograph titled The Amphibia of

Publication Date:

14/12/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20021215

pp:

0

Tags:

Pesticides, Animal Breeding, Tropical Forests, Deforestation, Research, Sri Lanka, Crops

Wildlife

Jumbo revival

The dwindling wild elephant population in Thailand may soon see a turnaround with the world's first elephant sperm bank opening for business in Bangkok. Following a series of trials, Thai

Publication Date:

14/07/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Animal Breeding, Birth Technology, Elephant, Thailand

Wildlife

Future jeopardised

Union ministers squabble over aphrodisiac musk

Publication Date:

30/05/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Animal Breeding, Asthma, Health Care, Medical Research, Wildlife, Medical Technology, India, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu (D), Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand)

India

ANIMAL TESTING

Acting on the petition filed by All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)

Publication Date:

30/01/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Animal Breeding, Animal Cruelty, Research, Legislation, High Court, Delhi

India

Burden of beast

Mounting economic pressures cast a dark shadow on the future of camels and their traditional breeders in Rajasthan

Publication Date:

30/01/2002

Author(s): R V Singh

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

10

Issue:

20020131

pp:

0

Tags:

Animal Care, Animal Breeding, Animal Feed, Animal Diseases, Camel, Endangered Species, Transport, Africa, India, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Food Security

India

Unhearthed

Human encroachment has created imbalance in the avian ecology. Better management practices are needed for the conservation of species diversity

Publication Date:

14/12/2001

Author(s): C S Malhi

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

10

Issue:

20011215

pp:

0

Tags:

Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Animal Breeding, Animal Feed, Deforestation, Trees, Endangered Species, Birds, Life Science

India

Hope for vultures

with an aim to save vultures from extinction, a novel programme to breed these birds has been jointly launched by the State Wildlife Preservation Depart

Publication Date:

29/11/2001

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Animal Breeding, Endangered Species, Birds, India, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Bombay, Punjab

India