Environmental pollution and saving the Indian tiger will be the focus of the UK's deputy prime minister, John Prescott, who begins a week-long visit to India on Thursday. Mr Prescot, who has

The Vice-President, Mr Krishan Kant, today cited encroachment on tiger habitats by humans as the most serious challenge to their survival and called for a multi-pronged strategy to resolve the issue.

The population of rhinoceros in West Bengal has gone up by more than three times during the past 17 years. Now the rhino population in the state is 72 as against 22 in 1982. There are 53 rhinos in

Nearly three decades of the Wildlife Protection Act and 25 years of Project Tiger have not been able to protect the "king of the jungle" which continues to be a poacher's "dream catch". The latest

A three-day international conference on tiger preservation in the next millennium is opening in Delhi on March 3. It is being held to mark the completion of 25 years of the project tiger in

As part of ongoing collaborative efforts on wildlife conservation, India and Nepal have agreed to rebuild and strengthen eco-corridors to facilitate transboundary movement of animals between the two

A joint operation by the Tirunelveli district police and the Forest department busted a racket in hunting of wild animals and sale of the skin, nails, tusk etc. Ten persons have been taken into

The Karnataka High Court has issued directions to Forest Minister D Manjunath asking him to take "serious cognizance" of the declining elephant population in the State due to rampant poaching.In a

The Nagaland government has served an eviction notice on all encroachers asking them to vacate the Rangapahar Wildlife Sanctuary premises with immediate

The elephant population in Orissa is once again under threat from rampaging ivory smugglers. Recently, elephant tusks worth Rs 1 lakh were seized by the police from a bus near Cuttack. This came in