Kashmir's Pashmina goats at risk
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The goats that provide the wool for Kashmir's world famous Pashmina shawls "face death from intense cold".
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JAKARTA : Indonesian authorities on Thursday began the mass vaccination of goats and other livestock in a region south of Jakarta where six people have died after eating goat meat infected with anthrax, an official said.
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NEW DELHI: Pakistan is continuing to send militants into Kashmir to support an insurgency there, but at lower levels than in the past, Indian intelligence sources and military officials said yesterday.
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WASHINGTON -- With new fighting expected to break out this spring in Afghanistan, the Pakistan government will soon have to decide what it can do about the tribal authorities who have not been living up to their agreement to prevent Taliban and Qaeda fighters from moving back and forth across the border, according to John Negroponte, the director of national ...
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The world risks losing many of its rare livestock breeds unless conservation steps are taken now, a study warns.
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India's Jammu and Kashmir state plans to fight a global ban on the trade in super-fine shahtoosh wool, which environmentalists say is produced by killing a rare Tibetan antelope.
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Kashmiris weary of years of violence welcomed on Friday the governments surprising offer to reduce the number of its troops in the Himalayan territory, a move that could prompt old foe Pakistan to respond similarly.
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Having reached out to Kashmiris during a two-day visit to the region, the prime minister heads this weekend to the country's volatile northeast, where public anger is high over alleged abuses by Indian soldiers.
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Foreign entertainment channels have been pulled from the air in Jammu and Kashmir, India, following threats from militant groups.
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A plan to gift an Indian elephant to Armenia is being opposed by animal rights activists, reports the BBC's Habib Beary.
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For 40 years it has been torched, vandalized, had its legs cut off and even been run over by a car. But officials in the Swedish city of Gavle are guaranteeing that this year's giant straw Christmas goat &#151; the victim of Sweden's most violent yule tradition &#151; will survive unscathed.
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KUALA TERENGGANU: The state government will provide a six- hectare piece of land for residents of Kampung Pulau Redang to keep their goats and cattle.  The move comes as state government officials are concerned that the sight of the animals roaming would turn tourists away from the island.
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Goats can help keep wildfires from springing up - by eating away brush prone to fueling them.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Vandals tried to set fire to a giant straw goat in central Sweden but failed to burn down the traditional Christmas monument, which has been soaked with flame-resistant chemicals, officials said Friday.
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - City workers planned to remove signs in a neighborhood warning drivers to slow down for kudzu-eating goats in the area, after the public works department said they were posted illegally.
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GULMARG, India  - As ski resorts go, Kashmir's Gulmarg must rank as the most militarized on earth.
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AUSTIN, Minn. - A goat on the lam shrugged off a shot from a stun gun, but couldn't get past the Sandman...