Last Updated: Sunday, May 19, 2013, 15:42
India`s tigers are facing extinction owing to a collapse in the variety of their mating partners and the resultant lack of genetic diversity, according to a first-of-its-kind research.
Last Updated: Thursday, April 25, 2013, 10:17
The cheetah, the world`s fastest land animal, survived mass extinction during the last ice age 10,000 years ago.
Last Updated: Monday, April 15, 2013, 10:59
A protected species, pangolins are widely hunted in parts of Asia for their meat, skin and scales.
Last Updated: Wednesday, March 6, 2013, 16:32
Nearly half of Africa`s wild lion populations may decline to near extinction over the next 20-40 years without urgent conservation measures, a report has said.
Last Updated: Friday, February 15, 2013, 16:38
London: A fifth of the world`s reptiles are estimated to be threatened with extinction, scientists have warned.
Last Updated: Sunday, February 3, 2013, 17:44
Two persons have been arrested for killing endangered deer `Sangai` (brow-antlered deer) at Keibul Lamjao National Park in Bishenpur district of Manipur.
Last Updated: Sunday, December 23, 2012, 23:05
Nature lovers would soon be able to watch a live broadcast of the unique phenomenon of mass-nesting and hatching of endangered Olive Ridley sea turtles near the mouth of Rushikulya river in Odisha.
Last Updated: Thursday, December 20, 2012, 13:01
One of the most endangered whales in the world has washed up dead on a beach in northeast Florida.
Last Updated: Sunday, December 9, 2012, 15:03
The Sundarbans, covering 10,000 sq kms of land and water (more than half of it in India, the rest in Bangladesh) in the Ganges delta, contains the world`s largest area of mangrove forests.
Last Updated: Friday, December 7, 2012, 13:01
Web giant Google has reportedly given cash to the World Wildlife Fund to buy ‘drones’ in bid to monitor poaching of endangered species in the jungles of Africa and Asia.
Last Updated: Friday, November 9, 2012, 13:26
A huge cache of turtles stuffed in sacks was recovered from an ambulance in Uttar Pradesh`s Bareilly district late Thursday.
Last Updated: Sunday, November 4, 2012, 10:06
Nordmann`s Greenshank, a beautiful Russian shorebird which migrates annually to many south Asian countries, including India, is listed as `endangered` on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
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