The usually docile animals of the Kaziranga National park have, after a month-long desperate attempt to flee incessant floods, hunger and killer vehicles, turned violent. In the last two weeks, a

The Keoladeo Ghana National Park near Bharatpur in Rajasthan has lost one more of its sensations. Anbur, the artificially hatched Siberian crane male, brought to the park in January 1997 from

The Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha has directed the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Environment & Forests to visit the last remaining habitat of the Asiatic lions in the Gir forests, and then

The Supreme Court has taken a strong view on non-registration of firearms in the vicinity of over 500 national parks and sanctuaries in India despite a mandatory provision in the Wild Life

The number of rare river-dolphins, found in the Ganga, Brahmaputra and Chambal rivers, is dwindling alarmingly, falling from 3,500 in 1992 to just 1,000 to 1,200 at

One of the three Siberian cranes - which went missing from the Ghana Bird Sanctuary in Bharatpur - was found near Natauj village under Kathoomar police station in Alwar district on Friday. The bird

The sprawling Horticulture and Forestry University at Solan is witnessing an alarming growth in poaching of certain endangered animals and birds. This is happening under the nose of a fully equipped

Dolphins in Nepal are threatened by barrages, which block upsteam movements, accidental killing in nylon gillnets, habitat destruction and possibly deliberate killing and water pollution. A recent

Eminent environmentalist Banka Behari Das appears to be on a collision course with the Orissa government on the issue of the proposed Dhamra port, whose foundation was laid

The disappearance of a tigeress in the Royal Bardia National Park and the deaths of at least two young tiger cubs in recent months have kicked up a ferocious controversy in conservation circles over