The newly built, 19-km road passing through the Corbett Tiger Reserve may be great news for tourism. But not so for leopards and tigers. Already four leopards have died on the road since March - all

Tiger and Leopard census, 1998,, began in Orissa on Saturday. The summer census, part of the sixth All India Tiger Census, would cover 28 territorial forest divisions in the state, including 17

The Bannerghatta National Park will set up a unique "remote" monitoring project to breed tigers in captivity to achieve cent per cent birth rate of tiger cubs, park Deputy director for forest

A bear orphanage, proposed to be set up in the Asola reserve forest on the Delhi ridge, has incurred the wrath of green activists. The NGO Forum for the NCR is planning direct action against the

Up to 90 percent of chicks of the world's rarest penguin species will starve to death this year and E1 Nino is the likely cause, John Darby, Assistant director of New Zealand's Otago Museum, said on

Thanks to a new initiative, salvation for the elephant and other animals in the Kruger National Park in South Africa may be imminent. A South-African based organisation, the Peace Parks Foundation,

People living in the vicinity of the forests reserved for animals in Rajasthan would be given identity cards from the next month, an official spokesman announced here today. The state boasts of

Traffic International , a network of wildlife trade monitoring group will now concentrate on the illegal trade of medicinal plants, besides tigers and rhinos. Traffic is a joint programme of the

Bishnois : The Punjab state government has issued final notification under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1994, for acquiring 53.3 acres of land of Ramasara, Dutaranwali and Shaban Kokrian

The GEMINI Circus began its shows in Bangalore on Wednesday amid strong protests from animal rights activists, who alleged the health of the performing animals was in a bad shape. Four animal welfare