Indian scientists are resorting to tissue culture to salvage plants facing extinction

When Rafiki, a sea lion protected by the US government, was shot in the head at point blank range while swimming in the Monterey Bay in California, she became the latest victim of spiteful violence

An ornamental plant -- Eremostachys superba -- found only in India and Pakistan, is on the verge of extinction. A study conducted by researchers R R Rao and Arti Garg of the Lucknow-based National

australia's national symbol, the kangaroo, is threatening to overrun the country, which is why "kangaroo courts" made up largely of farmers are deciding their fate for the worse. With a kangaroo

The panda, recognised the world over as the symbol of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), has just been saved from a doom of another kind. Justice P K Bahri of the Delhi High Court passed an order

The much publicised multi-nation effort to save the near-extinct Siberian Crane received a setback with the death of one of the pair of first-ever artificially hatched and bred crane chicks. The

THE sharp decline in frog and toad populations worldwide has disturbed amphibian watchers (BBC Wildlife, March 1994). The findings of the Declining Amphibian Populations Task Force, a network set up

The populations of wolves and blackbuck in Gujarat's Velavadar National Park have reached levels where both endangered species can be sustained