Animal activists last summer set fire to the alpine holiday home of Daniel Vasella, then chief executive of pharmaceutical giant Novartis of Basel, Switzerland, in one of relatively few violent attacks on scientists working with animals in German-speaking countries.
The Assam government has ordered an enquiry by the chief wildlife warden to ascertain the cause of death of at least four wild elephants, which were suspected to have been poisoned by villagers in the past two weeks in Assam.
The enquiry has been ordered after Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh asked Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi to probe the incident and suggested strict measure to puni
Guwahati, Oct 14: Human-elephant conflict has reached alarming proportions in Assam with at least four wild Asiatic elephants being poisoned by the villagers in the past one week, wildlife authorities said.
She welcomed the move by the Kollam police to ban the elephant parade scheduled on October 3.
KOLLAM: Former Union Minister and animal rights activist Maneka Gandhi has said that organisations like the Kerala Gaja Paripalana Sangham (KGPS) should be disbanded for attempting to parade captive elephants as a mark of protest against recommendations made by the Elephant Task Force for the welfare o
With planning permission for Britain's biggest dairy at Nocton about to be re-submitted, The Ecologist travels to California to examine intensive milk production - and finds factory farms, conflict, intimidation, pesticides, pollution and small-scale farmers driven out of business.
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday held rallies across Karnataka demanding early presidential nod to a bill banning cow slaughter in the state.
The bill, passed by both the houses of the state legislature, has been sent by Governor H.R.
