Lions, tigers, bears, panthers and monkeys need no longer dance at the crack of the ringmaster's whip. The Delhi High Court has finally upheld a 1991 Union government notification prohibiting circus

Five owls of rare species were recovered by the police from Darjeeling in West Bengal, the police said in Siliguri on

200 Bangla species critically endangered : In one of the most comprehensie studies of the status of wildlife in Bangaldesh, experts have found that 200 species are under threat of whcih 64 are

At least 21 lions have been killed in SOuth Africa over the past three weeks after they escaped from the country's famed Kruger National Park, a park official said on Monday.Wildlife experts said the

Scientists have developed "environment-friendly" artificial guinea-pigs for dissection and other experiments in laboratories to prevent cruelty to animals. The animals, made from high quality rubber,

Over 100 snakes were retrieved from snake- exhibitors on Nag Panchami on Monday due to the efforts of the animal activists, the forest department and the police. There has been a visible decline in

Billy, 82 who like Joy Adams of Born Free fame raised a tigress cub Tara as a pet, is in the eye of a storm over Tara's progeny having allegedly polluted Indian genes. Conversationists say these

Nearly 160 Mallards, a species of duck, were seized from the Old Delhi Railway Station on Sunday. One man has been arrested and remanded to judicial custody by the Wildlife Department. The accused,

Not much headway is being made towards declaring Royal Bardiya National Park (RBNP) 'gift to the earth', a high ranking official at the Department of National Park and Wildlife Conservation (DNPWC)

Dangerous flyash: Rain water has collected in the low-lying areas in the zoo where the ground level is at least 5 meter below that of the Yamuna. There is no natural drainage system to pump out the