The first legal sales of ivory, making a break in the decade-long worldwide ban on trade in ivory and other elephant products are taking place in three Southern African countries.Last week, on April

The UP government's decision to allow some wild animals, including neelgais, to be killed and the closure of 10 animal parks and release their inmates into near-by forest areas have led to a spurt in

Recent evidence of poaching in the Sunderbans has prompted the state wildlife authorities to step up vigil and redeploy its field staff in the tiger reserve. The Sunderbans Project Tiger authority

The state forest department will set up a rescue and rehabilitation centre for leopards this month at Gorumara National Park in Jalpaiguri. Madarihat already has such a centre. A state government

Wildlife lovers and conservationists were thrilled when about 2.7 lakh endangered Olive Ridley turtles came and nested in Gahirmatha coast of Orissa in the last week of March this year after a gap of

plan to educate public: A new programme to educate people on conservation of wildlife has been desigend by the managers of the Arignar Anna Zoological Park (AAZP), Vandalur. Titled 'Educating for

An abrupt, unprecedented climate shift apparently associated with global warming appears to have caused the mysterious disappearance of 20 frog species in Costa Rica, researchers reported. The frog

Hundreds of draught elephants, rendered jobless after the closure of the timber industry in the northeast, are starting to find alternative employment in the region's tea plantations."We are

"The annual turnover of wildife trade in India is over Rs 2,500 crore, of which one-third is illegal," said Manoj Mishra, director of of Trade Records Analysis of Flora and Fauna in Commerce

It was a unique farewell to a paregryen falcon at the Jodhpur zoo, which was caught at the Indo-Pak border when suspected of being used for spying. After six months of captivity, the Pakistani falcon