Habitat loss forces India's tigers to high ground
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Habitat destruction is forcing India's endangered tigers to new grounds, including high mountains which have a sufficient prey base but are not known to be the natural home of the big cats.
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India on Tuesday opened a national wildlife crime prevention bureau aimed at intensifying a difficult fight against the poaching of tigers and other endangered species, officials said.
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A 10-year-old hunting ban and the ongoing insurgency have brought about a boom in the populations of animals including leopards and bears in Indian Kashmir, wildlife officials say.
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The number of tigers in Bangladesh's mangrove swamps has risen by more than 50 to 419 in the last decade, thanks to the government's steps to save the endangered species, the Environment and Forest Minister said on Saturday.
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Nearly two dozen crossbred lions are slowly dying in northern India from a mysterious disease afflicting the hybrid offspring of Asiatic and African cats paired in a discontinued experimental program.
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A massive search is underway at  Fort Polk military base in western Louisiana for a Bengal tiger  running loose in the base's pine-covered hills.
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A sharp rise in poaching is placing some rhino populations at risk of extinction, a report says.
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Two young Royal Bengal tigers died unexpectedly at a zoo in India where dozens of lions have already died young, possibly because of a breeding program that produced weak animals, a conservator said Thursday.
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Skin and bones of endangered Sumatran tigers are sold openly in parts of Indonesia for traditional medicine and jewelry despite bans, a trend that could mean the big cats' eventual extinction, a conservation group warned Wednesday.
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Australia's island state of Tasmania risks losing its status as a &quot;Noah's Ark&quot; for rare species with the discovery that foxes have probably begun breeding there, environmentalists have warned.
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The illicit trade in tiger and leopard skins has reached alarming proportions, posing a serious threat to the survival of the big cats, a conservation group said Wednesday.
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The number of large mammals has fallen sharply across most of the planet as a result of human activity, a study says.
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Deadly turf wars between humans and hungry elephants in India's northeast have reached alarming proportions, say experts who plan an emergency meeting next week to tackle the problem.
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THE future of the world&#39;s large wild mammals is threatened by pressures similar to those that caused the extinction of two-thirds of such species at the end of the most recent Ice Age.
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More than 15,000 species, from sharks to frogs to fir trees, are facing extinction and the total is rising faster than ever before, conservationists and scientists said Wednesday.
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RANCHI, India  - A pack of jackals prowling for food attacked villages in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, injuring at least 35 people, officials said on Thursday.
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KIJAL, Malaysia, Aug 18  - Malaysia, once a major breeding ground, is in danger of losing its ocean-roaming leatherback turtles as humans eat their eggs, trap them in fishing nets and encroach on nesting sites, scientists said on ...