The US Justice Department has announced an Asian art dealer from Long Island admitted to charges that he took part in the illegal trafficking of black rhinoceros horns. Forty-nine-year-old Fengyi Zhou acknowledged while entering his guilty plea i more....

JAIPUR: In a territorial fight at Ranthambore Tiger Reserve(RTR), 10-year-old T28 alias Starmale was injured by his own progeny T85 aka Packman. The clash left T28 severely injured with bruises in several places in the front and rear legs. Both the t more....

The Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) Wednesday filed a reply in the Bombay High court detailing alleged violations and breaches, including animal cruelty, by the popular Gemini Circus, based on which their Performing Animals Registration was canc more....

BHOPAL: In a bizarre twist to the demonetisation aftershocks, two witch doctors have been arrested for allegedly instigating villagers to kill tigers for their paws, saying they could cast magic spells to "rain money in new currency". Seven suspec more....

GURUGRAM: A month after it was shut in the wake of bird fludeaths in Delhi and Hisar, the Sultanpur National Park will reopen for visitors from December 1. Sources said the authorities have decided to reopen the park after the samples sent to the lab more....

Ramanthapuram: Forest Department officials and Wildlife Crime Control Bureau sleuths seized a leopard skin and arrested three persons, including two who came from Kerala to buy the skin, at Sayalkudi in the district. Acting on a tip-off, a special t more....

A full-grown tiger scaled a 12-foot fence and killed a 20-month-old tigress inside the Bandhavgarh reserve in Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday. The reserve, sandwiched between the Vindhya and Satpura ranges in Umaria district, has one of the highest tiger more....

DEHRADUN: Upset over reports of killing of Himalayan black bears at large scale by poachers in Chamoli and Rudraprayag in the past few months, state forest minister Dinesh Agarwal held a meeting with senior forest officials on Wednesday and warned th more....

NAGPUR: In a major breakthrough, notorious absconding tiger poacherKuttu alias Rahul GulabsinghGondthakur (30) was nabbed in Lakhimpur-Kheri, bordering Nepal, in a joint operation by Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) and Wildlife Crime Control B more....

After a leopard made the national Capital its home a few days back, a Sambar deer was found loitering on Wednesday in a public toilet in Dallupura village of east Delhi. After much effort, the fire and forest department officials of the Delhi governm more....

NEW DELHI: Residents of Dallupura near Mayur Vihar woke up to a surprise visitor on Wednesday — a full-grown, male sambar deer that had settled in a park after apparently damaging a few vehicles while coming into the area early Wednesday morning. more....

New Delhi: The mystery of the missing tiger surfaced in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, with two MPs asking the Union environment minister to take steps to find seven-year-old Jai who vanished from a Maharashtra sanctuary six months ago. Vinayak BhauraoRa more....

The European Commission's proposal to attach emissions limits to subsidies paid to utilities that set aside capacity to avert blackouts would be hasty and bad for the environment, Poland's energy ministry said. A draft law published by the EU execut more....

In less than a month’s time after the national Capital faced its worst air conditions, the city’s air quality yet again dipped to a ‘severe’ level on Wednesday. The Air Quality Index (AQI) on Wednesday reached 410 which is labelled ‘severe’ or the r more....

NEW DELHI: There is no dearth of action plans to tackle the deadly air pollution in the capital, but their implementation is far from satisfactory. Even basic steps such as deploying adequate number of buses, hiking parking fee, identifying designate more....

LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to register only Bharat-IV mark vehicles - both light and heavy - in the state after April 1, 2017, an official said on Wednesday. The decision has been taken to keep the air and sound pollution le more....

LUCKNOW: Lucknow remained "severely polluted" for the second consecutive day on Wednesday. It was the 12th time the city pollution level crossed over 400 micrograms/cubic metre of air in November. As per data released by the Central Pollution Contro more....

KOLKATA: Fighting ingress of salt water and erosion of forest land due to climate change, tiger population in the shrinking islands of Sundarbans has remained stable over the last few years with the latest report estimating the presence of 86 big cat more....

DEHRADUN: Upset over reports of killing of Himalayan black bears at large scale by poachers in Chamoli and Rudraprayag in the past few months, state forest minister Dinesh Agarwal held a meeting with senior forest officials on Wednesday and warned th more....

NAGPUR: In a major breakthrough, notorious absconding tiger poacherKuttu alias Rahul GulabsinghGondthakur (30) was nabbed in Lakhimpur-Kheri, bordering Nepal, in a joint operation by Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) and Wildlife Crime Control B more....

After a leopard made the national Capital its home a few days back, a Sambar deer was found loitering on Wednesday in a public toilet in Dallupura village of east Delhi. After much effort, the fire and forest department officials of the Delhi governm more....

NEW DELHI: Residents of Dallupura near Mayur Vihar woke up to a surprise visitor on Wednesday — a full-grown, male sambar deer that had settled in a park after apparently damaging a few vehicles while coming into the area early Wednesday morning. more....

New Delhi: The mystery of the missing tiger surfaced in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, with two MPs asking the Union environment minister to take steps to find seven-year-old Jai who vanished from a Maharashtra sanctuary six months ago. Vinayak BhauraoRa more....

The European Commission's proposal to attach emissions limits to subsidies paid to utilities that set aside capacity to avert blackouts would be hasty and bad for the environment, Poland's energy ministry said. A draft law published by the EU execut more....

In less than a month’s time after the national Capital faced its worst air conditions, the city’s air quality yet again dipped to a ‘severe’ level on Wednesday. The Air Quality Index (AQI) on Wednesday reached 410 which is labelled ‘severe’ or the more....

NEW DELHI: There is no dearth of action plans to tackle the deadly air pollution in the capital, but their implementation is far from satisfactory. Even basic steps such as deploying adequate number of buses, hiking parking fee, identifying designa more....

LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to register only Bharat-IV mark vehicles - both light and heavy - in the state after April 1, 2017, an official said on Wednesday. The decision has been taken to keep the air and sound pollution more....

LUCKNOW: Lucknow remained "severely polluted" for the second consecutive day on Wednesday. It was the 12th time the city pollution level crossed over 400 micrograms/cubic metre of air in November. As per data released by the Central Pollution Contro more....

KOLKATA: Fighting ingress of salt water and erosion of forest land due to climate change, tiger population in the shrinking islands of Sundarbans has remained stable over the last few years with the latest report estimating the presence of 86 big cat more....