A Japanese television network provoked angry protests from animal lovers after it aired a gourmet-food programme featuring a controversial dish:Stir-Fried Bengal Tiger, Cantonese-Style. The

Zoos are learning fast that their animals are in danger. At least 20% of the world's species will be lost over the next two decades. Today, damaged ecosystems and a shrinking wilderness mean that

Alarmed by the destruction of forests and depletion of rare wild animals like the one-horned rhino, pygmy hog and the royal Bengal tiger in the northeast, environmentalists are working on an action

The burning down of a turtle research center last Saturday at Ostional Wildlife Refuge on the Pacific coast has fueled the raging controversy over who should be in charge of a turtle nesting program

The State Forest Department has moved the Centre and the State Government o procide the funds and enough legal teeth to enable it to maintain the forest guards in adequate strength and abide by the

Asia's once abundant population of sea horses has declined alarmingly in recent years because of environmental changes and heavy demand for their use in traditional medicines, aphrodisiacs and

A rare species of pangolin was found by the villagers near a railway track at Onda in Khamarberia of Bankura district in West

President Jacques Chirac has signed into law a measure defying a Europe-wide regulation that bans the hunting of migratory birds during the nesting period. The law allows hunters to fire away at

If the poachers don't get them , speeding vehicles will, come the floods and the denizens of the sprawling Kaziranga National Park are caught between the two, as they head for the safety of higher

Zoologists in China have found more than 1,000 snub-nosed monkeys in China's southwest Yunnan. Snub-nosed monkey is a rare species that has been included in the number one category of wildlife listed