Horns of rhinos implanted with radioactive chips as new measure, but against what?In a bid to reduce poaching of rhinoceros, their horns are now being implanted with state-of-the-art radioactive isotopes so that the chips...
29 Jun, 2024, 02.32 AM IST
African Parks' bold move to save rhinos: Rewilding the world's largest rhino farmAfrican Parks, a conservation charity, has acquired the largest private collection of rhinos in the world, the Platinum Rhino farm, with pl...
24 Sep, 2023, 02.02 PM IST
Which is the top travel adventure of UK travellers dream bucket list?According to Alex Bentley, the company's head of products, seeing the natural wonder of the Northern Lights is memorable, so it's no surpri...
30 Sep, 2022, 10.29 PM IST
Poaching, horn trade declining but rhinos still threatened22 Aug, 2022, 03.44 PM IST
China's forays into Africa's forests & illegal trade could lead to environmental disasterEarthsight, a London-based environmental NGO, earlier estimated that the annual value of worldwide rosewood smuggling exceeded a billion do...
11 Jun, 2022, 02.25 PM IST
Assam CM issues strict guidelines following the outbreak of African swine feverSonowal directed the district administration that in view of African swine fever movement of domestic pigs are restricted so as to stop fur...
12 May, 2020, 09.54 PM IST
Extinction Watch: How African Black Rhino came back from extinctionBetween 2012 and 2018, the Black Rhino (Diceros bicornis) population across Africa has grown at a modest annual rate of 2.5% from an estima...
13 Apr, 2020, 11.51 PM IST
African white rhino displayed for 45 years at Mysuru Zoo dies09 Mar, 2016, 09.04 PM IST
Jungle book: Top three kid-friendly destinationsThink glamping (glamourous camping), morning breakfast out in the jungle while an elephant greets you and by night you fall asleep listenin...
17 Dec, 2015, 05.08 AM IST
Shrien Dewani in top 100 personalities of the year in South AfricaShrien Dewani, acquitted on charges of orchestrating the murder of his wife Anni, is among the eight Indian-origin people in the annual lis...
23 Dec, 2014, 10.39 AM IST
- Rhinos may be extinct by 2020: Experts
The poaching of black and white rhinoceros has soared in last six years. While as 13 rhinos were slaughtered in 2007, that number spiked to...
14 Apr, 2014, 01.52 PM IST
Rhinos being killed with alarming frequency in AssamThe killing of seven rhinos in the state within a span of a month-and-a-half has proved once again that poachers can still strike the one-h...
17 Feb, 2014, 08.09 AM IST
Farm equipment maker ASM launches Rhino tractorsFarm equipments maker Assam Saii Motors today launched its first 22 bhp tractor Rhino 15DI, priced at Rs 3.05 lakh (ex-showroom, New Delhi)...
05 Dec, 2013, 05.32 PM IST
How a myth is killing the rhinoWidely-entrenched beliefs about the miraculous properties of the rhino horn are leading to the animal’s massacre even though studies show t...
04 Mar, 2013, 01.16 AM IST
- South African demand for legal trade in rhino horns leaves India jittery
The surge of poaching of rhinoceros in South Africa could lead to threats to the one-horned Indian rhino in faraway Assam and West Bengal i...
16 May, 2012, 01.47 AM IST
- African elephant in Tourism Ministry ad; Ramesh protests
A full-page advertisement of the tourism ministry published on Monday in leading newspapers has come under the scanner of the environment m...
27 Sep, 2010, 06.58 PM IST
- Namibia auctions wildlife to raise funds for conservation
A South African farmer paid 4 million rands (US$527,000) for eight Namibian black rhinos on Friday, as Namibia auctioned five species of ra...
26 Jul, 2008, 03.53 AM IST