Bats possess a unique, preactivated innate immune defense that stops viruses from fully replicating, even after cell entry. This remarkable...

Nigerseed, also known as nyger, has traveled from its traditional cultivation in India and Ethiopia to becoming a key part of the global bi...

A new strain of avian flu, H5N1, has spread to dairy cows and domestic cats in the U.S., with a dairy worker in Nevada testing positive for...

Annual forest fires in Uttarakhand cause extensive damage to precious forest resources, threatening rare Himalayan fauna like birds and but...

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A three-day international workshop on Bird Conservation Initiatives will be held in Patna from February 5. The workshop aims to check illeg...

Brazil has confirmed eight cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), including one Rio de Janeiro on Monday, but not in a commerci...

The home button on the top left of Twitter’s web browser used to have the blue bird logo, but overnight, it was replaced with a cartoon of ...

The risk to humans is low, said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization. As a precaution, people are ...

This disease is caused by the influenza A virus.

For years, Pakistan has stood at the nexus of the falcon trade, both as a source of the birds of prey, and then as a destination to hunt wi...

The joint operation was carried out in coordination with the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) and the Customs Department at the Kolkata...

Amid growing threats to a number of bird species in the country, the Union environment ministry has come out with a 10-year comprehensive p...

In November last year, the Commerce and MSME Ministry had met the export promotion councils (EPCs) to assess the impact of demonetisation o...

Ironically, it is absolutely legal to keep exotic birds in captivity. India has 12 species of parrots, of which eight are regularly traded.

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

Fearing fresh outbreak of the deadly bird flu, India today banned import of live poultry and poultry products from the countries where Avia...