The Population of Siberiabn cranes, visiting India, as their winter home, has been reduced from 200 two decades back to only two this year. Siberian cranes come to the Keoladeo National Park,

Herds of wild elephants, high on locally brewed rice beer, have killed at least 14 people in the north-eastern India state of Assam in a series of incidents during the past fortnight. While three

A bird so rare that it was thought to have been extinct has been rediscovered on a Sangihe, an Indonesian island, by a group of British volunteers. The cerulean paradise flycatcher was described by

The Mumbai-based Bombay Natural History Society has demanded a thorough probe into the alleged incident of serving "Titar-Bater" (Indian Quail) as a delicacy to legislators at the Nagpur Vidhan

Two poachers in China's western Qinghai province have been jailed for killing hundreds of the endangered Tibetan antelope, reports said Wednesday. Ma Xuejun and Han Haimai were sentenced to six and

Spurred by a common passion for nature and wildlife, a fashion photographer and a silver screen actor have joined hands to tread on the lesser-explored territory of ecological photography producing

Monkey menace is a cause of concern.The Councillors of Municipal Corporation of Delhi(MCD) are divided on party lines on a very basic question: Where has the number of monkeys increased most in

The six-day-long tiger and leopard census, 1999, will be held in Orissa's Simlipal tiger reserve forest from January 5. According to official sources here, altogetehr 53 census units would cover the

SCIENTISTS are studying the potential for a new, more potent strain of the rabbitkilling calicivirus after the failure of the existing virus in large parts of Australia's temperate regions. The

Dolphins which were found roaming about in plenty in Karnali river, which is well known as the longest river in Nepal with the clean water, are going to be extinct, according to King Mahendra Trust