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India develops PPR vaccine

Against sheep and goat plague

South Asia

Equine flu strikes Uttarakhand

How cow became the mother of demigods

The current political discourse on cow protection disregards the history of beef eating in India

Vanishing green

Participants at a recent conference conference on man, animal and environment discuss ways to solve the problem of overgrazing

Back to basics

An air conditioning system that uses constant subterranean temperatures can become an ecofriendly alternative to conventional systems

Royal deaths

Was the real killer an infection or negligence?

Apex court orders all states to ensure sterilisation and vaccination of stray dogs

Order comes in response to petitions by animal welfare groups that local bodies were not doing enough on the matter

Disappearing Act

Only special breeding programmes and creation of corridors can save the lion-tailed macaque from extinction

Beggar-thy-neighbour

We're developing the world's first vaccine suitable for humans and livestock

The technique uses a chimpanzee respiratory virus (adenovirus) to expose individuals to just a small part of the Rift Valley Fever virus 

Resistant to fluorosis

Camels are less susceptible to the medical condition than other animals, including humans

Silent killers

Snares laid in inhabited areas in Goa have citizens and officials caught in a noose of concern

Biting cold for pashmina

Thousands of changra goats die of starvation as record snow buries pastures

The 'other' food crisis

The multiple dangers of privately owning tigers and other big cats

Any presence of a big cat in private ownership is scientifically and morally wrong and poses challenges to human health, safety and security

Vanishing breeds

While people worry about patenting of upmarket plant products like neem because of transnational interest, India's unique biodiversity of …

Monkey business

Coping with the nuisanceof urban monkeys may be beyond human patience. But shooting or declaring them pests will not serve the problem. Only a …

SOUTH AFRICA

Cosmetic ban

How India is killing the country’s largest economy of the poor

New restriction on cattle slaughter will severely cripple the livestock economy which is bigger than crop economy; poor farmers shifted to …

Left to die

The double-humped Yarkandi camels in Ladakh are on the route to extinction after the closure of the 'silk route'

Utterly bovine

UK researchers claim the Mad Cow disease is caused by Indian animal feed imports; India rubbishes hypothesis

Pastures gone