Scientists at the Indian Institute of Science are doing a genetic study of the Asian elephant for the first time in the country to aid conservation efforts, in collaboration with the centre for

The Bangladesh government has imposed a complete ban on hunting of wild animals and birds in the next five years for the protection of environment and bio-diversity in the

Animal-rights activists dressed as monkeys locked in cages Thursday protested researchers' plans to blast monkeys with sounds louder than jet engines in order to simulate human hearing loss. A group

In May this year Orissa foresters got ready for their quadrennial exercise - tracking down tigers - a species, becoming increasingly rare with the spread of human activity. Chief Wildlife Warden S K

The J&K Chief Minister, Mr Farooq Abdullah, has refused to ban Shahtoosh shawls saying that several people's livehood was dependent on it.

In Canterbury, England, in 1989, the world's leading experts on frogs and other amphibians gathered for their first world congress. In the lobby, in the bar and in chance encounters in the hall, the

Is giving away endangered species of wild animals to other countries illegal and unethical? Certainly, say Mumbai's animal welfare activists. Not when it is a goodwill gesture, reply Brihanmumbai

Increased poaching, fast diminishing habitats and the geneal apathy of the Government vis-a-vis conservation of the country's animal and plant species have cast shodows over the survival of the black

Despite serious financial crisis things seems to be looking up for the Kaziranga National Park as the number of incidents of poaching of rhinos in the park has started declining in the last couple of

Flood waters have forced hundreds of endangered wild animals to flee their sanctuary in India's north eastern state of Assam. Waters of the mighty Brahmaputra, which is in spate, have engulfed the