Will identify herd and fix it on one of the animals
CHENNAI: In an attempt to reduce man-animal conflict and warn farmers about the movement of crop raiding elephants in Coimbatore Forest Circle, the State Forest Department has proposed to radio collar an elephant from a herd, which will be monitored for two years.

Forest Department sources said the World Wide Fund for Nature-India (WWF-I) has

A recent survey conducted by the Sikkim forest department and the World Wildlife Fund has revealed that there are around 300 red pandas in the state.

The project, that started in 2008, was conducted in Pangolakha wildlife sanctuary in East Sikkim and Barsey rhododendron sanctuary in the West district and is the first census on the animals.

Red panda, the state animal of Sikkim and one of the

World Environment Day:
ITANAGAR, June 5: Governor Gen J J Singh today beckoned children to adorn the role of

" J&K Events Centre" goes online on "World Environment Day"
SRINAGAR, : Minister for Forest and Environment, Mian Altaf Ahmed today called for initiating both long term and short term measures to conserve environment which he said was imperative to protect the posterity from the hazards of pollution and global warming.

Addressing a State level function held at SKICC here today in connection wi

If the one-time dacoit-ravaged, poacher-infested Panna National Park in Madhya Pradesh gives a complex to Rajasthan wildlife authorities and conservationists alike, that is all because of female fecundity.

KALPETTA: A wildlife census in the Wayanad Wild Life Sanctuary (WWLS) and the two forest divisions of Wayanad district began on Wednesday.

The census is being held as part of a State-wide exercise.

The three-day census is being organised by the Forest and Wildlife Department in association with the Periyar Foundation, Kerala Forest Research Institute (KFRI), Peechi, and the World Wide Fund f

Motion-sensing cameras on the island of Sumatra captured video of two families of endangered tigers in a lowland forest scheduled for destruction, the World Wildlife Fund said Monday. Twelve tigers, including two adult females with cubs, passed in front of the cameras over two months between the Bukit Tigapuluh National Park and nearby mountains.

Conservation group WWF Monday urged companies to drop plans to clear Indonesian forest areas where infra-red cameras have captured footage of rare Sumatran tigers and their cubs.

The video recorded in March and April shows two mothers with four cubs and another six of the critically endangered big cats in the Bukit Tigapuluh wildlife reserve in eastern Sumatra.

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A common Bible story says Jesus fed 5,000 people with five loaves and two fish, which scholars surmise were tilapia.

But at the Aquafinca fish farm here, a modern miracle takes place daily: Tens of thousands of beefy, flapping tilapia are hauled out of teeming cages on Lake Yojoa, converted to fillets in a cold slaughterhouse and rushed onto planes bound for the United States, where some will a