Europe's cosmetics manufacturers are to stop using animals in tests on their finished products and in most tests on ingredients to head off the threat of an EU ban on such tests. The ban-originally

Environmentalists and non-governmental organisations working in the Koyna region of the Western Ghats have called for closer interaction between forest officials and villagers in view of the

The lifting of the international ban of African ivory has led to fears among conservationists that the trade in Asian tusks will receive a boost. A majority of Asian tuskers roam the Indian

According to ministry officials, the Delhi Zoological Gardens would be shifted to the outskirts of Delhi to free the land for more high-rise buildings, as envisaged by the government's housing plans.

Two months after its decision to set up an Infocity in an afforested area in Gandhinagar kicked up a controversy, the Gujarat government is now eyeing the Wilderness Park, located across the

Environmental group Greenpeace urged Mexico early this week to ratify two regional cooperation treaties crucial for the protection of endangered sea turtles. While Mexico's environmental law is more

WWF study: One of the largest variety of fishes, the whale shark, one of which was accidentally trapped here last week, is beign mercilessly killed for fin and liver in the coast of Gujarat,

The peacocks in Gugana village did not return to the bushes that evening. On March 22, some of them started tumbling down from the treetops as villagers watched in disbelief. Within half an hour,

Th World Wide Fund for Nature(WWF-India) plans to launch a hunt for the elusive Himalayan Quail. The Himalayan Quail has been presumed to be extinct and not spotted for the last hundred

On jungle trails canopied by trees and creepers deep inside Taman Negara, the ancient rain forest, nature lovers are leaving behind more than their footprints. Water bottles, soda cans and chewing