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Elephant escorts, special teams fail to save injured rhino

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 28, 2014, 15:26

Elephant escorts stood guard and special teams monitored his wounds but the injuries inflicted by other rhinos during a fight proved too much for a 11-year-old rhino that died in Salukapur area here.

Climate talks in trouble as green groups walk out

Last Updated: Friday, November 22, 2013, 08:51

Exasperated green groups walked out of faltering UN climate talks in Warsaw on Thursday.

Prince Charles visits Western Ghats

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 13, 2013, 18:22

Britain`s Prince Charles, a strong votary of environmental preservation, visited Western Ghats and showed a keen interest in ongoing efforts to preserve the flora and fauna there.

Tigress X-rayed in Sundarbans after found struggling to walk

Last Updated: Thursday, October 17, 2013, 21:58

A young tigress has been put through an X-ray examination in the wild perhaps for the first time in a new initiative to treat animals after the big cat was found struggling to walk.

Need to check organised gangs in rhino poaching: WWF

Last Updated: Monday, October 7, 2013, 21:16

As per figures till March 2013, there were only 3,500 rhinos in Asia (compared to over 25,000 across Africa).

WWF opens nominations for Climate Solver awards

Last Updated: Friday, October 4, 2013, 19:41

Environment advocacy group World Wildlife Fund-India Friday invited nominations from small and medium enterprises for its Climate Solver Awards 2013.

Climate change makes farmers go retro style

Last Updated: Sunday, September 29, 2013, 16:04

Climate change is inspiring farmers in Sundarbans to dig into their history to a time when their forefathers grew indigenous varieties of rice using green manure.

Beach tourism, development killing turtles: WWF

Last Updated: Monday, August 12, 2013, 12:16

Unregulated tourism and development activity along beaches like Mandarmani and Digha in West Bengal is killing turtles including the vulnerable Olive Ridleys, say researchers.

WWF ties up with bookstore chain to save one-horn

Last Updated: Wednesday, July 31, 2013, 15:34

To save the endangered one-horned rhinoceros in Assam from extinction, WWF-India has tied up with a bookstore for raising funds and increasing public consciousness on the issue.

Assam asks WWF for plan to mitigate human-elephant

Last Updated: Monday, June 17, 2013, 21:20

Assam Environment and Forest Minister Rakibul Hussain has asked World Wildlife Fund-India to submit an operational plan for Human Elephant Conflict(HEC) mitigation in the state`s forest divisions.

Greens salute evangelist Prasad on environment day

Last Updated: Wednesday, June 5, 2013, 18:19

Hundreds of activists, students and members of NGOs Wednesday joined India`s leading ecologists in saluting conservation evangelist M.K. Prasad to mark the World Environment Day here.

25% emissions cut makes economic sense: WWF

Last Updated: Monday, June 3, 2013, 14:22

The Australia WWF Monday released an economic study proposing that Australia could increase its emissions reduction target from 5 to 25 percent by 2020 via the carbon price at very little cost to the economy.