As many as 25 pairs of the critically endangered forest owlet , which is endemic to India, will be colour-banded to study their distributio...

The number of Irrawaddy dolphins in Chilika has dropped to 145 from an estimated 156 last year and 158 in 2010, according to the latest cen...

Though ESOL obtained environmental clearance on May 29, 2008, there is no CRZ clearance which is mandatory since the area comes under CRZ z...

The Simlipal Tiger Reserve (STR), on the lines of the Corbett, Ranthambhore and Bandipur tiger reserves, has launched the Simlipal Tiger Co...

Experts say trained teams and a set of dos and don'ts are a must to save big cats that stray into towns & villages.

Even as the forest department claimed increase in the number of elephants by 24 in the last three years in Orissa.

The authorities have been able to clean almost 100% of the furnace oil that leaked from a ship two km off the Gopalpur port in south Orissa...

Forest cover has increased by 100 square kilometers (sq kms) during 2005-07 thanks to pro-active Village Forest Protection Committees (VFPC...

The opposition BJP voiced concern about the fate of eco-fragile sensitive zone around Balukhand-Konark sanctuary, located barely few meters...

India's leopard count has gone down by 69 in past eight weeks, with many poisoned, ensnared in traps, killed in accidents or became victims...

The UPA government, already floundering for a strategy to counter a concerted legal attack against its flagship Forest Rights Act, has been...

A large number of rare Olive Ridley Turtles were killed and their carcasses found scattered on the beaches from Chilika lake to Paradip por...

Illegal trade in mongoose is continuing unabated in Orissa with sixteen of them being seized from a fair last week, a wildlife activist sai...

A plea challenging the constitutional validity of the Forest Rights Act aimed at giving land rights to traditional forest dwellers, has bee...

A wildlife activist has alleged that a large number of endangered turtles have died on the beaches due to govt's failure to curb marine fis...

It's a smart strategy for the brand-and it's all for a good cause. Kolkata-based apparel maker Turtle has engaged with the World Wildlife F...

The improved habitat and protection measures at the Chilika lake has attracted more winged guests to the country's largest brackish water l...