The state government is thinking of reducing the Wild Ass Sanctuary's area of 4,953 square kilometres in view of the Gujarat High Court directive last year to stop all salt farming within its

The death of over 200 monkeys in a village in Bareilly district, bordering this pilgrim centre, has prompted the state government to order a probe. The monkeys are suspected to have been poisoned by

A portion of the Adyar Creek, which has been protected from bird hunting, is to be declared as a bird sanctuary. This part covers about 50 hectares of land owned by the

Dr Sudhakar Kar, a research officer (wildlife) with the Orissa Government , has been named the 1998 Man-of-the-year by the American Biographical Institute (ABI).

Since California began enclosing 25 of its 33 state prisons with electric fences in 1993, 3,000 migratory birds have been electrocuted, according to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. But

The kangaroo population in Australia has boomed to a record 25 million, outnumbering the human population of 18.5 million, according to a new survey published today by the commonwealth scientific and

The Simlipal National Park and the sanctuary have been sealed to tribal hunters fro Thursday. A detachment of the Orissa Armed Police Reserve has been deployed to guard the strategic entry points of

Birds can help the Middle East nest : Israel is the central bus station for bird migration. Incredibly, 500 million birds pass through or over this narrow country - storks and eagles and pelicans

Promotion of regulated and responsible eco-tourism could be one of the ways to protect the fragile environment of the Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve (GMBR) as well as the livelihoods pf the

They once grazed on a swathe of land stretching from Myanmar to Afghanistan. But over the years, dwindling forests have driven the Great One Horned Rhinoceros into just a few pockets of Nepal and