Calcutta High Court on Thursday started a suo motu case on killings of elephants, bison and birds in north Bengal forests. A division bench headed by Chief Justice T.B.N. Radhakrishnan observed that ...

A public campaign “Dibang Valley Must Be Saved from Destruction — Act Now!” seeking rejection of the Etalin hydroelectric project in Arunachal Pradesh’s Dibang Valley has received good respons...

Sir — From being widely hunted during the colonial era to being brought back from certain extinction in the early 1970s, tiger conservation has a long and chequered history in India. But it seems as...

India’s forests seem to be burning bright. The figures released by the National Tiger Conservation Authority have shown that the number of tigers in the wild in the country has witnessed an impressi...

An NGO based in Upper Assam’s Tinsukia district on Saturday alleged that illegal felling of over 10,000 trees was one of the reasons for this year’s floods.Devajit Moran, secretary of Green Bud So...

Trap cameras will be set up at the Dalma Wildlife sanctuary in April-May.Though 30 cameras are already at the disposal of Dalma authorities, five-six cameras will be set up initially.Assistant conserv...

A UN wildlife conference on Thursday accepted India’s proposals to include the Asian elephant, the Great Indian bustard and the Bengal florican in a list of migratory species targeted for enhanced t...

While it is impossible to change the past, efforts can always be made to adopt a different course for the future. The Supreme Court seemed to recognize this recently when it said that it would allow t...

A cheetah conservation agency in Namibia has expressed enthusiasm for India’s proposal to reintroduce the cheetah in India but cautioned that the process will be long and difficult.The Cheetah Conse...

Sir — An excess of anything is bad, even if it involves what is considered to be the ‘holiest’ of animals (“Moot point”, Jan 4). As a result of aggressive cow protectionism and restrictions ...