Forty-eight beagles are adjusting happily to new homes and the thrill of freedom. But the dogs and a clutch of animal lovers may be the only few who are satisfied with the result of the move to

With the help of a satellite, Indian nature lovers have mapped out 470 reserves for wildlife to ensure their proper development. These digitised maps, for instance, show the distribution of

Plans to transform San Ignacio, a vast lagoon in northern Mexico into one of the world's largest saltworks, have brought the developers, Mitsubishi Corporation of Japan and the Mexican government

The tiger population in Andhra Pradesh has declined drastically due to the failure of the state government to implement Project Tiger, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India has said. In his

When the Nepali wildlife authorities recently destroyed a cache of animal trophies, prominent among the lot were a heap of false tiger skins and nails. The skins - artfully dyed hides of smaller

At least 14 peacocks of a forest Department nursery were found dead under mysterious circumstances in Bilawali village of Dewas district in Madhya

Minister of State for Welfare Maneka Gandhi has called for uniform laws for the entire country, including Kashmir , to ensure effective control of illegal trade in wildlife

The Wildlife Department of West Bengal has decided to introduce identity cards for all the rhinoceroses living in the state's Jaldapa reserve forest and Garumara national parks. Niroj Singhal,

In what is stated to be the first of its kind of occurence in India, an Emu (the bird) farm in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh has hatched its first chick. The commerical farm, operated by

The first of the 13 biosphere reserves proposed in the country, the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve (NBR) covering 5,520 sq.km. in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka, came into being about 12 years ago, but