Transforming lives: The job creation potential of a just livestock transition

The growth can revitalise rural economies and mitigate the adverse effects of urbanisation

Urban Menace: The ‘pigeon problem’ in Indian cities is human-caused; here is how

Ready supply of food, adaptable nesting habits and prolific breeding have led to a huge jump in pigeon numbers across India in recent years

African swine fever: Ripple effect across the world

Small farms in Asia are the worst hit by the outbreak, while global pork and feed markets fluctuate with fall and rise in China’s pig numbers

Supreme Court's stay on Jallikattu

Major General (Retd.) R M Kharb, chairman, Animal Welfare Board of India, talks about the Supreme Court's stay on Jallikattu in Tamil Nadu

Livestock largesse

Farmers and livestock owners are herding in a fortune as the animal sciences go into overdrive and squeeze out maximum yields

The original Mus

Researchers zero in on the Indian subcontinent as the possible birthplace of that most evasive of pesky mammals - the house mouse

I won't and you can't

The bureaucracy does nothing to conserve India's invaluable animals and plants. But it knows how to cry wolf when private agencies want to use these

Freedom means death

The Delhi High Court ruling may free the animals from the cages of circuses, but will they find a new home?

Goodbye Dolly

Both her birth and death stirred a raging debate. Dolly -- the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell -- was put to death on February 14, …

Peta's Pet

UK-based animal welfare group People for Ethical Treatment of Animals has been campaigning against Indian leather, alleging ill-treatment of …

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 …

Utterly bovine

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

Honeybees join humans as the only known animals that can tell the difference between odd and even numbers

Parity classification has not been shown in non-human animals until now 

The curious case of pneumonia

Disease hits camels across Rajasthan

Seeking the right symbol

ASIA-PACIFIC

LIONS SET FREE

Shift Zoos

RELIEF FOR STRAY DOGS

How cells differentiate

Jackal heads seized

SOUTH AFRICA

ARGENTINA

CAMEROON

ARGENTINA