SCIENTISTS in India have developed a genetic probe to prevent poaching of the endangered one-horned rhinoceros. The probe, developed by scientists at the New Delhi-based National Institute of

• The minsitry of environment and forests is all set to issue a notification banning the use of plastic bags for packing items such as meat, fish and cooked food. • Flood waters have

The Great-One-Horned Rhinoceros have been driven into a few pockets of Nepal and eastern India because of dwindling forests, where poachers are hunting them to extinction. A variety of other

the Union minister for environment and forests, Saifuddin Soz, has sought support from developed countries and non-governmental organisations for strengthening the on-going conservation efforts in

A photograph of a dead elephant, with its tusks and toenails ripped out, recently jolted Bangladesh out of its indifference towards poaching of these near-extinct wild Asian elephants. Worse still,

bird-trappers have evolved new methods to hunt migratory birds that have started arriving at the Chilika lagoon in the state of Orissa, the largest salt water lagoon in Asia. The latest tactic

endangered monkeys can now be taught to avoid human poachers. Researchers have discovered that the Diana monkey, Cercopithecus diana, in C