The movement by animal rights activists received a shot in the arm with the Calcutta zoo authorities admitting on record that they would be "selling" two giraffes to the Chennai Zoo for Rs 12 lakh.

Altogether 30 persons were trampled to death by wild elephants in North Bengal so far this year, the divisional forest office (wildlife), Jalpaiguri, Niraj Singhal said. Mr. Singhal said the

The Union gvernment's pressure on the state (Gujarat) to denotify the country's first Marine National Park located in the Gulf of KUtch for industrial activity, may just spell doom for this prized

Nepal and India need to beef up trans-boundary cooperation efforts if they are to conserve endangered red pandas and threatened crimson-horned pheasants (Munals) in Kanchanjunga-Darjeeling area,

The clamour in the UK for a ban on fox-hunting is starting to have echoes in Ireland, where anti-hunt protestors staged their first serious challenge to the sport this week during the Dublin Horse

The craving for deer meat really cost him dear. Never had Murad Lari, a member of the UP assembly from the Bahujan Samaj Party imagined his favourite food could cost him a whopping Rs 600,000. Mr.

Dogged by declining management standards, increasing incidents of poaching and disturbances within the wildlife habitat, the performance of the prestigious Project Tiger after 25 years is "not very

People for Animals, an NGO working for animal welfare, today threatened to launch an agitation if the authorities fail to improve the condition of the animals in the Nandankanan zoo. The animals in

India, having 30 mammalian species in the endangered list, ranks first in the world among nations with high number of mammalian species in the "threatened" category. It is followed by the United

The rare 'Himalayan Quail', last sighted in 1876 and believed to be extinct now, might be spotted again in the picturesque Mussoorie hills of Garhwal Himalayas, if recent evidences are any