The WWF has launched a $1.5 million conservation programme to assist agencies working to protect tigers. Agencies evolving sound management systems to protect this species, its habitat and prevent

China has found its biggest threat yet. Pollution. With 178,000 annual deaths being attributed to urban pollution, the nation's leaders have become keenly sensitive to the issue and going by the

Sea lions are being shot, and sometimes decapitated, in the waters off a popular Northern California beach by unknown assailants, park rangers said. Some of the dead animals are so decomposed when

Sixty per cent monkeys in the Capital suffer from Hepatitis B. Camel's skin is peeling away and humps have shrunk. Soumil Mukhopadhyay lets out a cry for hapless animals working long hours,

Three herds of about 30 wild elephants were spotted along the gas pipeline route which runs through the lush forest in Kanchanaburi's Thong Pha Phum district, conservation groups said. They said the

Carcasses of over 2,000 Olive Ridley sea turtles, killed by fishing trawlers in Orissa's coastal waters, have been found strewn along a five-kilometre stretch of the Konark-Bulukhand sanctuary area

Nature's Beckon has undertaken a comprehensive bird survey programme at Chakrashila wildlife Sanctuary along with a conservation awareness programme. This programme has started on December 1 and will

Wildlife experts were preparing to investigate the mysterious deaths of about 700 New Zealand sea lion pups on a remote island in the Aucklands

With a view to countering rising incidence of poaching and illegal trade and wide-ranging threats detrimental to tiger habitats in major tiger range countries of Nepal, Bhutan, India, Bangladesh and

The Wildlife Protection Society of India (WPSI) is willing to donate Rs 20,000 towards hiring one of the boats required to effectively patrol the Bhitarkanika stretch of Orissa coast where the