Illegal activities, inlcuding construction of a helipad, forts and fishing, were going on in the naitonal parks and sanctuaries of Madhya Pradesh. The state government has allowed an erstwhile ruler

Bushfires have destroyed vast tracts of grassland in Kenya's biggest national park and threatens the lives of thousands of elephants, says conservationists. The first fires broke out in Tsavo East

The Government has increased the outlay for tiger preservation from Rs 8.05 crore in 1997-98 to Rs 17 crore in 1998-99. The amount is to be spent through Project Tiger. The project aims at creating

At the turn of the century, there were an estimated 60,000 right whales worldwide, but since the animals-were prized for having the thickest blubber of the big whales, they were targeted by whalers.

Animal liberationists and the State Government have been blamed for causing the virtual extinction of the last viable wild population of the eastern barred bandicoot, one of

With the arrest of three person, Rajasthan Police claimed to have unearthed an ivory smuggling racket in Jaipur seizing semi-finished and finished ivory worth Rs 10 crores in the international

Efforts to save tigers in the wild in Nepal are under a cloud with the disappearance of a tigress and the death of at least two cubs in a national park covered by a Norwegian-funded research project.

Concern was expressed in the Rajasthan Assembly over the dwindling number of wild Siberian cranes visiting the Keoladeo Ghana National park near Bharatpur. This was seen as a setback to the attempts

A project to conserve the Asian

two earthquakes in Italy over the last fortnight left about 11 people dead and left an estimated 5,000 homeless. The first quake on September 23 in central Italy, which measured 4.6 on the