Not par for the coarse

Lean pastures

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

Pastures gone

Rare glam dolls

Genetic shearing

Third twin? not yet

The possibility of human cloning after a sheep has been cloned recently, seem hardly welcome as critics raise questions about humankind's …

New viral disease targets sheep in India

A contagious disease, similar to rinderpest and first observed in the Ivory Coast in 1940, has surfaced among sheep and goats in south India

BLEATING RETREAT

Shearers poisoned

Home remedy

A local remedy for controlling a parasitic disease works wonders for sheepbreeders in the Peruvian highlands

BSE spreads to sheep

Doubting Dolly

The first pure cloned mammal comes under a cloud

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, …

Moral dilemma

Mixed reaction greets cloning of human embryo

Counting sheep

Medicinal plants help animals digest better

'Open forests for livestock grazing'

Otaram Dewasi, Rajasthan's Minister of Dairy, Devasthan and Gaupalan department and India’s first cow minister, tells Down To Earth how the …

Bluetongue outbreak in Britain

Goat plague hits Kenya

Uneasy truce for animal rights group

Electronic tag for sheep, goats

Deserted by policy

Rajasthan's livestock is facing a threat as grazing lands disappear and laws paralyse traditional economic incentives for keepers

Deadly livestock disease continues to spread across world

Georgia recently reported its first-ever case of ovine rinderpest, also known as ovine rinderpest, while a new outbreak has occurred in the Maldives

A $996-million plan to eradicate deadly sheep and goat plague

At least 300 million families are likely to benefit by wiping out Peste des Petits Ruminants

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 …