The mountains beckon trekkers and hikers from around the world, but in the Himalayas the activity comes with a simple message

A new round of climate negotiations kicked off in Germany on Monday with squabbling over money and procedural questions that could threaten progress at the two-week UN conference.

50 children from 5 darjeeling schools attend three-day workshop on bird watching

Students at the bird-watching workshop at the Singalila National Park: and (above) participants at a theoretical session of the workshop organised by the WWF-India

Starting Tuesday, the Ganges River Dolphin is officially the national aquatic animal of India. The Environment Ministry notified the endangered species

Away from the public eye, an ambitious initiative could actually change the prospects for Kaziranga National Park as well as the district of Karbi Anglong. The forest department supported by WWF India and personnel of the Indian Army are preparing the eco-restoration of a landscape that extends over 1,000 sq km.

Siliguri, May 5: The forest department has taken up projects to count and study the Asiatic black bear and to find out the status of different species of butterfly in Senchal Wildlife Sanctuary.

Tigers bred in captivity may look and behave differently from their kith and kin in the wild but the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament has now told the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to explore the possibility of breeding big cats and reintroducing them in the wild.

- WWF trains border guards to conserve park & keep away smugglers

Siliguri, April 30: The forest department is trying to bring in the Sashastra Seema Bal to check the smuggling of rare medicinal plants from the Singalila National Park to Nepal.

The 78.6sqkm park is on the Indo-Nepal border in Darjeeling district.

Notwithstanding the unusually high tiger concentration in Kaziranga National Park as revealed in a recent camera-trap exercise, experts feel that the development also has darker shades which, if left unaddressed, could imperil the park

With the endangered dolphins proving to be effective indicators to evaluate the success of the ongoing Ganga Action Plan, by virtue of their survivability in the river water, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-India is mooting the Dolphin Action Plan.