The fate of several globally endangered species has been threatened by dwindling grasslands in Assam, which has no natural grassland of any significance worth conservation left, say wild-life

Even as Anti-Animal Testing Day approaches on April 24, the city's animal rights' groups will join their counterparts in Delhi in denouncing the Delhi-based Ranbaxy pharmaceutical company for

M P which is recognised as a tiger state, has 22 per cent of the world's total number of tigers and half this population inhabits the state's vast acreage of forests which remain vulnearable

The Tripura Upajati Juba samity (TUJS), a tribal-based political party, has strongly opposed the creation of a wildlife sanctuary for an endangered species of monkey in South Tripura apprehending the

For the second consecutive year, the endangered Olive Ridley turtles have chosen not to come for their mass nesting (aribada) to Gahirmatha beach, the world's largest rookery, raising the fear that

Eminent environmentalist Banka Behari Das has expressed concern over the absence of mass nesting of endangered Olive Ridley turtles at the Gahirmatha beach for the second consecutive

Changes will be introduced in the existing Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act of 1960 to prevent the exploitation of animals for research in various laboratories in the country. According to

It is mid-April and the tribals of Orissa will again kill animals to celebrate their joy and get blessings of their deities. And sure enough, the State Government will come up with the same excuse

The sudden death of a large number of Indian tortoises inside a pond at a village close to Sambalpur in the past few days has alarmed environmentalists, wildlife lovers and forest officials in the

the World Bank-sponsored programme for biodiversity conservation in seven globally-significant areas of the country has taken off with the hiring of field-officers for conducting feasibility