About 5,000 protestors demonstrated outside a game merchant's ranch in South Africa, demanding the release of 14 baby elephants. The owner of these elephants had been reprimanded by the court last

thirteen bottle-nosed dolphins were found dead on the shores of Vishakhapatnam, Vizianagaram and Srikakulam in Andhra Pradesh. According to the Vishakhapatnam Society for Prevention of Cruelty to

The Delhi High Court ruling may free the animals from the cages of circuses, but will they find a new home?

A Japanese man was arrested in Sri Lanka for hunting butterflies in a protected rainforest. The man, who's name was not disclosed, was remanded for two weeks by a magistrate in the central town of

... but is it sustainable? The Cana

According to a recent survey, about 200 dead Olive Riddley turtles are washed away every day on Orissa's coasts ( Down To Earth, Vol 7,

three jackals' heads were seized at the Anna International Airport in Chennai by the police. They were about to be smuggled to Malaysia in a small bag, the top of which was covered with

Hunting of brown and black partridges, and urial continues in the Salt Range of the Chakwal region in Pakistan, despite a ban imposed by the provincial government. These species, which are

For the first time in India's history, a writ petition has been filed in the High Court to shift a national zoological park. The petition filed by People for Animals (PFA), a group led