The snow leopard is no longer an endangered species, but its population in the wild is still at risk because of poaching and habitat loss, conservationists said this week.

A pair of rare white giraffes have been spotted in Kenya, to the delight of local residents and conservationists.

Only around 60 Javan rhinoceroses are believed to remain, all of them in Indonesia's Ujung Kulon National Park.

Ajmer: It is important to create vulture rescue centres in the state and conduct regular census of them. This is the most precious species the world is losing rapidly.

Researchers using DNA barcoding technology found that over 70% of shark fins and ray gill plates, collected from sellers in multiple countries, came from threatened species.

Four fifths of wild orangutans in Kalimantan, the Indonesian portion of Borneo, live outside national parks and other protected areas, according to a new study by the Indonesian government.

NAINITAL: In a bid to add more teeth to its surveillance capabilities and collect comprehensive ground information on a real-time basis, the Corbett Tiger Reserve (CTR) administration has initiated

Correlating tourism with environment conservation, Jammu and Kashmir minister Choudhary Lal Singh said it was "high time" to protect water bodies, forests, endangered wildlife species and biophysic

Vulture conservationists have stressed on the need to form state Vulture Conservation Action Plan to protect the species as electrocution continues to be a major threat to them in Uttarakhand.