Chimps too nurture ‘social traditions’
byWashington: Research on chimps never ceases to surprise us — the latest one, for instance, says that they are not only capable of learning from…
Wildlife
Felines continue to be at the receiving end in Uttarakhand
byDehradun : It is now almost 12 years that the hill districts of Uttar Pradesh were carved out to create the small mountain state,…
Supreme Court comes to aid of Uttarakhand foresters
byDehradun: The Uttarakhand forest department has more than one reason to thank the Supreme Court for banning tourist activity in the core tiger reserves….
Indian Vulture under fresh threat from cattle medicine
byMumbai: The critically endangered Indian vulture, nature’s scavenger, faces another potential danger from the mass-produced veterinary painkiller aceclofenac administered to cattle, a new research…
Resorts reduce tiger corridor from 20 kms to five kms
byDehra Dun: Even as the world is showing its concern for the dwindling number of tigers in the wild, the apathetic condition of the…
ONGC dedicates its Foundation Day to the house sparrow
byDehra Dun : Concerned at the large scale decline in the number of house sparrows, which were once a common sight in almost every…
Two elephants killed by train in Odisha, driver held
byBhubaneswar: Two elephants were killed after being hit by a speeding goods train in Odisha’s Keonjhar district, officials said Thursday. The driver of the train…
Vanamahotsava in Himachal: Govt. Plans to Plant 2,00,00,000 Trees in Monsoon
byDharmshala: Forests in Himachal cover an area of about 21, 325 sq kilometers. i.e. about 38.3 pecent of the total area of the state….
Saab de Kutte
byThey came in three editions at three different periods in our lives. The first two when we had no children. The present pup, Hachiko,…
Supreme Court order to give Corbett Park tigers breathing space
byDehradun : Even as Travel Operators for Tigers and a former forest and environment advisor, A Baluni are getting ready to file a review…