The wild elephants that once roamed freely over southern China retreated long ago to the dense tropical rain forest that covers the mountains here near the borders with Burma and Laos. The dwindling

instead of saving the endangered Tibetan antelope, the Jammu and Kashmir government looks determined to protect illegal manufacturers of shatoosh shawls through its proposed wildlife law.

Tinkerbell, Duchess and Kaman are in a scientific programme testing camel DNA and investigating artificial insemination techniques that could eventually lead to more births. The programme is part of

A pack of 48 stump-tailed monkeys long thought to be extinct in Malaysia has been spotted near the Malaysian-thai border recently, a newspaper reported on

A pack of 48 stump-tailed monkeys long thought to be extinct in Malaysia has been spotted near the Malaysian-Thai border recently, a newspaper reported on Satuday. The monkeys were sighted crossing

When Hong Kong officials locked up huge warehouses stocked with millions of traditional medicines containing tiger and rhino parts in 1993, Judy Mills hoped they would never see the light of the day.

The cheetah, the pink-headed duck and the mountain quail have become extinct in the last decade, while three other Indian animal species are feared to have become extinct, a study by the Zoological

The British stage beetle is set to join the elephant and rhinoceros in the pantheon of protected species, as ministers seek to thwart to lucrative international trade in the endangered

Wildlife officials of the Uttar Pradesh and Bihar governments have expressed their inability to comply with the Central government's order to confiscate 16 mobile zoos which house 102 animals in

The Union Home Minister, Mr. Indrajit Chief Minister has asked Mr. Kalyan Singh, to take necessary action to stop harassment of Van Gujjars by the authorities of the Rajaji National Park