Fifteen baby crocodiles born at Chhatbir Zoological Park three months ago have gone missing under mysterious circumstances over a couple of weeks.

Anindo Dey & Vijay Pinjarkar | TNN

Jaipur/Nagpur: Rajasthan has quietly turned down the offer' of a Maharashtra wildlife sanctuary to relocate three tiger cubs to the Sariska Tiger Reserve.

SINGAPORE, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Asia's tiger population could be close to extinction with fewer than 3,500 tigers remaining in the wild and most clustered in fragmented areas making up less than 7 percent of their former range in Asia, a study says.

The WWF and other conservation groups say the world

- Rare black-necked, open billed variants wing near Sitarampur dam

Jamshedpur, Aug. 1: In what promises to be an ornithologist

The Pinjore vulture breeding centre may save the endangered bird

Nesting Grounds

* India has lost 99.9% of its vultures; less than 60,000 remain
* Many died after consuming the cattle drug, diclofenac, depriving us of efficient waste managers
* They are now bred in captivity, to protect them from the drug and to increase their numbers
* This has taken off in Pinjore, with

Vivek Trivedi | Bhopal

Madhya Pradesh Forest Minister Sartaj Singh and the heir to the erstwhile princely State of Rewa, Pushpraj Singh, are at loggerheads over land required to establish the proposed white tiger breeding cum rescue centre in Rewa.

Rathin Das | Anand

Cattle-keepers had for long been complaining about shrinking grazing land due to increasing pasture areas being handed over to the industries in many States. This concern has now finally been articulated by the chief of the country

Priscilla Jebaraj

NEW DELHI: Sariska's tiger breeding hopes were revived on Tuesday with a tiger being brought to the reserve from the Ranthambhore reserve. It was selected after his DNA was analysed in a bid to avoid the genetic incompatibility that has plagued Sariska's relocation programme so far.