The Forests in Pakistan are severely threatened by growing consumption of fuel wood and illegal logging.

The U.S., Japan and the EU will come under pressure this week to pledge billions of dollars a year from 2013 to help the world's poorest nations fight climate change, as negotiators from more than

The alarming decline in a critically endangered species of vulture in Pakistan appears to have been halted, according to surveys of the birds.

Dozens of deer were released in China's Jilin province on Sunday during the launch of a project hoped to restore the region's Siberian tiger population.

KATHMANDU: In encouraging news on the wildlife front, Nepal has witnessed a jump in tiger population over the last two years during which the numbers of the wild cat went up from 155 to 176.

Central African countries have launched an ambitious coordinated plan to combat poaching in the region, in the face of escalating wildlife crime and accompanying violence.

Conspicuous consumption from a growing middle class in Vietnam is driving the catastrophic poaching of rhino horns in South Africa, conservationists warned on Monday.

As many as 20 million people of the country would be displaced if sea level rises to 1.5 metres owing to climate change.

South Korea's proposal to resume whaling for scientific research has angered other Asian countries and conservationists who said the practice would skirt a global ban on whale hunting.

Deeply concerned about the recent intrusions of poachers in the Corbett Tiger Reserve (CTR), the honourary warden of CTR and National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) member Brijendra Singh requ