Last Updated: Thursday, June 20, 2013, 11:23
UNESCO on Thursday added six ancient sites in Syria including a fortress of Saladin and a Crusader castle to the endangered World Heritage list, warning that more than two years of civil war had inflicted heavy damage.
Last Updated: Tuesday, June 18, 2013, 19:43
More than 30 exotic wild animals have been siezed from a Singapore flat, in the city`s largest haul of illegal wildlife in over a decade.
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: Monday, April 1, 2013, 14:35
Human formulations of the drug Diclofenac banned for veterinary use are still being illegally used to treat cattle, posing a grave danger to the already critically-endangered vulture population, say experts.
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: Thursday, January 10, 2013, 22:19
Two bots (the word is derived from `robots`) equipped with listening devices helped detect nine endangered North Atlantic right whales in the Gulf of Maine last month.
Last Updated: Wednesday, December 26, 2012, 21:16
Criticising the Planning Commission for taking "so lightly" its recommendation, a parliamentary committee has asked it to provide adequate funds for tiger conservation programme.
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.
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