Even as the mystery continues to shround the death of a panther cub after it reportedly straued into the hotel premises here, the Rajasthan Forest and Wildlife department has decided to launch a

Eighty rare birds have reportedly gone missing from the Chhat Bir Zoo on the Chandigarh-Patiala highway since February 3. A formal complaint was lodged at Dera Bassi police station on February 3, in

At a recent session of the provincial people's congress in Guangdong Province, China, a group of representatives recently submitted a bill proposing a ban on eating wild animals. Even in China, where

Largescale killing of birds, including some rare species of migratory ducks, has become a daily feature at the beels of Barbhag(Assam) and its adjoining areas. These birds are killed by keeping some

It's a sad story of their once strongholds becoming strangleholds as prime protected habitats of tiger, swamp deer and several other endangered species in Uttar Pradesh are being converted into farm

What makes the winter rendezvous of birds in Chilika look better this time is not just the arrival of distinguished visitors like the salkated teal, the brahmani duck and white stork, the last one

Bhusandpur, the gateway to the Chilka lake, is a sleepy passenger train halt-- with no distinction save the fact that you could boy the most exotic table birds at Rambha. In the evening, the

Keepers at the Indianapolis Zoo are treating two pregnant African elephants as if they were their species' last hope. Fewer than 500,000 of the creatures remain in the wild, and fewer than 300 are in

With a gradual increase in the population of tigers over the years in the forests of Manas, Kaziranga and Nameri National Park, the Project Tiger authorities are glad here although in the other parts

Asiatic lions would no longer be the exclusive preserve and pride of Gujarat's Gir forests. A new lion habitat is being created in Madhya Pradesh where congenial conditions would be provided to lions