The chorus is dying

A virulent fungal disease is killing frogs in what might be the sixth mass extinction

Researchers find new gene providing resistance to last-resort antibiotic

The finding comes eight months after the first-ever gene responsible for resistance to colistin, a last-resort drug for multi-drug-resistant …

Fowl Play

Is an avian flu pandemic imminent? As panic sends the world into a flutter, the Indian response still struggles to take wing, discover padmaparna …

Bird flu spreads in West Africa; FAO alerts governments

Cameroon has already incurred a loss of $20 million due to the outbreak

Drug ban saves vultures

Painkiller given to animals was killing the birds

Whale of a problem

Human anthrax and vultures

In a spot

Containing the contagion

Ebola threatens gorillas

Avian returns

Bird flu resurfaces, exposes weakness of testing system

Tales of cruelty and compassion from a home for destitute animals

All Creatures Great and Small, a shelter set up by humanist and social worker Anjali Gopalan, is a sanctuary for a disparate group of animals

Hangul conservation takes backseat in Kashmir

The state has barely 200 Hanguls or Kashmiri Red Stags left, but it does not seem to be alarming enough for the government, whose conservation …

Foot in mouth disease

Only a sea change in farming techniques will help save the European agricultural sector from disasters like the foot-and-mouth disease

Migratory birds expert Taej Mundkur on bird flu

Taej Mundkur, an expert on migratory birds, tells Padmaparna Ghosh that bird flu spreads through respiratory route , and not just the faecal route.…

Meat for thought

A method used to slaughter cattle may spread mad cow disease

Death by disease

Bird flu hit farmers yet to receive compensation

Farmers await compensation

Who flew?

Is influenza afflicting government?

Understanding the bug

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Lean pastures

Drought and a viral disease strike Jaisalmer’s livestock. Kurush Canteenwala finds out how the herders are coping

Vultures on death row

Human persecution is the main cause behind the high mortality of vultures in India

Census on captive elephants

Equine flu strikes Uttarakhand

No more deaths recorded after bird flu outbreak: monitoring committee report

The committee was appointed to oversee disease control after over 70 birds died in Delhi and Gwalior zoos