The Haryana Government has notified a livestock breeding policy to promote breeding and for the development of livestock, especially buffaloes in the state.

Stating this here today, a spokesman for the Animal Husbandry and Dairy Department said the policy would be reviewed after every 10 years or earlier as deemed necessary by the department.

He said the breeding policy aimed at avoiding ind

Environment March 8: Environment minister Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday informed Parliament that there is no programme for breeding the Royal Bengal tiger and government has allowed captive breeding of only

Guwahati, March 4: Experts from Vulture Conservation and Breeding Centre at Rani will ascertain the reason behind the death of 20 vultures at a paddy field in Goalpara district today.

Goalpara divisional forest officer M.

Mon villagers warm up to pig-breeding-Data reveals that 25% of country

For the first time in the state, a successful vulture conservation operation has been carried out jointly by Dr RS Kishtwaria, livestock and wildLife expert of the Department of Animal Sciences and Veterinary College, HP Agriculture University, here in collaboration with the state Forest Department.

This operation was executed in Pong wetland in the Kangra valley, 60 km from here.

The popula

A post-graduate from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, has moved the Delhi High Court seeking a direction to shift Delhi Zoo, located adjacent to the medieval monument of Purana Quila, to the outskirts of the Capital to provide a more congenial environment to the wild animals and birds kept there.

The petitioner, Hargyan Singh Gahlot, submitted before a Division Bench of the Court compris

Officials of Tata Steel Zoological Park and Bhagwan Birsa Biological Park, Ranchi, are keeping their fingers crossed for a green signal to a proposed collaboration that aims to boost breeding and conservation of animals at the two parks.

The two zoological parks, which have shown keen interest in signing an MoU in this regard, have sent a proposal to the Jharkhand Zoo Authority (JZA)

The last pair of Siberian cranes was spotted here in 2002
About a decade after the celebrated Siberian cranes ceased to visit the Keoladeo National Park near Bharatpur in Rajasthan, the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests is planning to take up a captive breeding programme for the rare birds in the same terrain.