Emu, the non-flying giant bird from Australia, has adapted to Indian environs withstanding temperatures from 0 to 50 degrees. The bird, a member of the ratite family of ostrich, Rhea, Cassowary and

All elephants roaming the streets of Bangkok will be tallied and listed in an information base to aid future efforts to solve the problem. City residents have been asked to help with the survey,

Sixteen tortoises belonging to the rare radiated tortoise species that were seized after being smuggled into the country are now being kept in a room at a Yokohama police station.

The United Nation's Food and Agricultural Organisation(FAO) has launched an international plan to prevent the shark from being hunted to extinction. The US, India and Indonesia are the three nations

A British animal rights protester vilified as the "Ayatollah of Animal Rights" by his opponents, is close to death after almost eight weeks on hungerstrik in protest against vivisection, his

A controversy has surfaced regarding the cleaning of three ponds at the National Zoological Park in the city. The process has adversely affected the arrival of the migratory birds in the park,

Two members of an elephant poaching gang from Kerala were arrested by forest personnel after a shootout in Maramalai forest area in Kanyakumari district of Tamil Nadu, police

Under pressure from scientists, animal rights activist and minister Maneka Gandhi has backtracked on the issue of animal experimentation. Her ministry has decided to withdraw and amend some of the

In the remote Indonesian village of Lamalera, life revolves around the pursuit of big game. One of the last places on earth where international law still allows people to hunt whales for food. Since

As a punishment to the World Wildlife Fund for publishing maps showing large parts of Jammu & Kashmir in Pakistan and of Arunachal Pradesh in China, the Government has scrapped its ambitious Tiger