A division bench of the Sindh High Court, Hyderabad circuit, comprising Justices Faisal Arab and Riazat Ali Sahar, directed a deputy conservator of the wildlife department in Hyderabad on Thursday

Wildlife Department has failed to control the New Castle “Ranikhet” disease as two more peacocks died of the deadly disease here on Thursday raising the overall death toll to 118.

Sindh government finally took notice of the deaths of peafowl in Thar due to viral epidemic, and announced to establish a mobile unit with technical staff to treat peafowl in the deserts of Thar.

Speakers at a dialogue on ‘peacocks mortality and climate change effect on Thar’ have urged the government to take serious measures to protect peafowl from Newcastle disease, which have killed hund

Jaipur: Seventeen peacocks were found dead in Tonk’s Jalgaon forest area on Monday. The police registered an FIR on Tuesday suspecting that the peacocks were given poisonous grains by poachers.

At least two more peacocks have died due to a contagious disease as the death toll has reached to 47 in last eight days in Tharparkar.

Nineteen more peacocks reportedly died in different villages in Diplo taluka on Wednesday which appeared to have died of the highly contagious Newcastle disease, raising the death toll to 41 since

Tharparkar peafowl are under threat as the Newcastle disease has returned to the district and killed 22 peafowl within two weeks while many others are inflicted with the disease, Dawn has learnt.

BHOPAL: Over 50 peacocks died in Morena district in the past 48 hours due to excessive heat. The forest officials recovered nearly dozen dead birds and sent them for post-mortem.

Bihar plans to turn a village into a breeding centre for the Indian national bird peacock, forest officials officials said on Friday.