Subhash Chandra N S, Bangalore, December 23, DHNS:

The State Forest Department and the CID Forest Cell are at loggerheads with the Tamil Nadu Forest Department (TNFD) over illegal trade of quails.

Srikakulam, Dec. 12: Observing that government was keen to take up issues concerning the poaching of wildlife and smuggling of forest re-sources, the forest minister, Mr S.

... But Are Dying Due To Neglect
Parth Shastri | TNN

Ahmedabad: They look cute, can even make your plastic tub its home and can walk on your hand.

Himachal Pradesh

CONCERN: The survival of the tiger is at stake.-

A local conservation group in Vietnam voiced its opposition on November 3 to the planned sale of tiger paste by Vietnamese authorities, amid warnings by the international community that the animal's survival is in serious jeopardy.

Officials in Vietnam's northern Thanh Hoa province agreed last month to organise a public auction of six pounds (

Officials Swoop Down On Lakshadweep Pavilion, Two Arrested

New Delhi: For the second year running, the Delhi government and the People For Animals (PFA) carried out a raid at the India International Trade Fair (IITF) at Pragati Maidan and recovered rare corals from the Lakshadweep pavilion.

The rhinoceros is under threat yet againCONTRARY to widespread belief in China and South-East Asia, the rhinoceros horn has no proven medicinal or aphrodisiac qualities. Its effect, some scientists say, is the same as chewing your fingernails. It is made of the same stuff, agglutinated hair. Yet rhino horn is currently worth more than gold, selling for up to $60,000 a kilo.

A sweeper was arrested by the Mumbai Police on Tuesday on charges of illegal possession and alleged trading a pair of elephant tusks. The accused, Ashok Maru, has been booked under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972.

Akshaya Kumar Sahoo

The State Board for Wildlife, the high-power body chaired by the chief minister Naveen Patnaik, has not met even once in the last two years
MASSIVE URBANISATION and industrialisation in Orissa is now taking its toll on the wildlife resources.

A poor understanding of the relationship between animals and our ecology has led to a lackadaisical attitude towards wildlife conservation.

INDIA'S national animal is a favourite with poachers. There is a large market for every body part of the Bengal tiger in South-East Asia.