Breed basket

Even when it comes to dogs, we still haven't got over the colonial hangover. We import breeds and give them English names. Rajat Ghai speaks to S …

The crossbreeding scam

Local animal breeds are better adapted to their specific environment than foreign imports, but today in India they are under threat

June 30, 2003: The day conservation policy could have changed

Usually, the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) does manage to stick to its guns in the face of adversity, or even rationality. But …

Birds guided by social concern

The social behaviour of a bird species found in Africa is remarkably similar human actions

Swift billing for UPOV

Electric pollination

Fewer ribbits in Western Ghats? Erratic, deficit rainfall hits breeding cycles of frogs

Researchers say amphibians are not getting enough time to complete the breeding cycles, eggs drying out early

Waiting for the cows to come home? Forget it

VIETNAM

Licence to kill?

The wonder plant

A method has been developed to produce brinjal, tomato and capsicum from one plant

Of bees, flowers and robbery

Earlier thought to be plant-friendly, the bumblebee actually inhibits plant reproduction

Breeding trouble

Mob slaughters 300 crocodiles after one kills a man in Indonesia

They killed a protected species and can be fined or imprisoned for it

Neck deep in trouble

The Rothschild giraffe is vanishing from the Kenyan landscape due to loss of habitat

No wood is waste

Nano-onions from wood shavings can deliver nutrients to plants

INDIA

Nine new crop varieties

40 spotted deer translocated within Karnataka marking a new era in wildlife management

Madhya Pradesh Forest Department has also successfully translocated bigger herbivores like gaur and sambar, said the state's activists  

Go Gokul gone

For all the noise around cow protection, NDA's cow mission, the very first it announced on assuming power, has nearly died

Waiting for the "white" revolution

Using artificial methods to increase the number of superior breeds of cows and buffaloes, scientists hope to make India abundant in milk.

Scientists isolate fungi that can boost plant growth even with less water

The research helped record better growth parameters and higher proline concentration

CHINA

New mango varieties

MoEF's flip-flop