The Maharashtra government has declared 217.30 hectares of reserve forest at Rehekuri in Ahmednagar district as a san ctuary for the small Indian gazelle, a species of black buck locally known as

A decline has been noticed in the number of deers in Barmer district of Rajasthan.This decline has been attributed to increased poaching in the area

A group from the Centre for Environment Education sighted dugong (sea cow) near Bet Dwarka. Dugong is the most endangered marine mammal. There was a time when dugongs were found in abundance in the

Curious bystanders and local bigways look on with mixed expressions as a cache of wildlife trophies, including fake tiger skins, toe nails-and rhino horns, are doused with kerosene and set

People for Animals, dubbed as the country's leargest animal welfare organisation, today served a legal notice on Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited for importing 50 Beagle dogs from the U.S.A. to conduct

The Greenpeace Mediterranean office said it supports the efforts of the Cyprus government for achieving a "postponement" of the British military exercises planned to begin in the Akamas peninsula.

The Mumbai High court has in an interim order directed the Maharashtra Government to appoint infirmaries all over the state to take care of sick and invalid

Man-animal conflict, more so than poaching, has been cited as the primary cause for the steady depletion of the tiger population. Says the director of a tiger conservation programme at the World

The 160-km stretch in the upper part of the Ganga between Bijnor and Narora barrage in Uttar Pradesh is soon to be declared a dolphin sanctuary. According to World Wide Fund for Nature sources

At last the Olive Ridley Turtles have found their saviour in Dr Robert Sutccliff, who had made his life mission to save this endangered species on the Orissa coastline, which is considered the