A herd of about 100 elephants appear to have become some of the most recent refugees from the fighting between government troops and insurgents in Myanmar. Locals say 97 elephants recently entered

India's first green politician had a very green idea: free the circus beasts! She also had enough clout to make it happen. Last month she won a long running legal battle with circus owners when a

Nestled in the sylvan surroundings of the Kangra valley in Himachal Pradesh, the Pong Dam wet land has emerged as a major habit for migratory birds. Some 15,000 to 20,000 birds belonging to as many

The probe into the recent poaching of a panther in the Gorewada forests in Nagpur has revealed that a rich wild habitat of herbivores and carnivores co-exists in the 1400-hectare forest area situated

Although only 42,000 of them are left, and they are wards of the US government, the wild horses of the West can suffer miserable ends. Last month 34 mustangs were found shot to death in the

An international conference under the aegis of the Asian Rhino Specialist Group is to be held in India next month. The meeting will go into the status of rhino population in india and the ways and

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 UP are being converted into farm land

Medical clinics and schools in villages are his way of saving the tiger. A Chinese by birth, this Canadian geophycist decided that saving the Bengal Tiger from extinction was his calling in life. For

"You see more birds on the hourdings than in the lake," is the cryptic remarks of a keen bird watcher who returned to Nawabganj wild bird sanctuary, forty kilometres from Lucknow, for bird watching

The Rajasthan government's decision to write to the Centre for listing the Neelgai in the Fifth Schedule of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, instead of the Third Schedule where it is now listed,