A 9,550-year-old spruce, the world's oldest living tree, has been found in Dalarna province of Sweden

The Madhya Pradesh Forest Department will move 20 bisons from the Kanha to Bandhavgarh national park as part of a long-term plan to boost the numbers of the endangered animal in the state, officials said here Monday. There are only 5,000-10,000 bisons left in India now.

 Many rare animal and bird species have recorded a population increase in Jammu and Kashmir over the years, but heavy snowfall this winter has affected wildlife adversely

Tourists are dumping an increasing amount of non-biodegradable plastic waste on the Himalayan glaciers, and environmental scientists have expressed concern this could damage the fragile mountain eco-system.

An eight-month-old leopard cub has been found dead in the Dudhwa National Park, about 250 km from here.

A new species of shrub frog from the Western Ghats adds its name to the growing list of frogs discovered recently.

A million bees have colonized in a single banyan tree. The tree has the world's largest number of beehives as many as 600.

 Currently India is home to over 11,000 leopards, but the sad part is that during 2007 at least 168 leopards died due to various reasons, including poaching

Eleven peacocks have been found dead in a village in Rajasthan's Rajsamand district, more than 350 km from the state capital here.

The presence of rare freshwater dolphins in the Harike wetland and wildlife sanctuary in Ferozepur district in Punjab was confirmed by the wildlife experts Friday, bringing cheer to wildlife experts.

With no knowledge about the tiger who went missing from Rajasthan's Ranthambore National Park about a month ago, the forest department is planning to put radio collars on some tigers in the sanctuary to keep track of them.

 The growing population of wild bears at a World Heritage Site in southwest China's Yunnan province is threatening the lives and livelihood of local farmers

A bear poacher and trader of animal parts has been arrested in Orissa in a joint operation conducted by the police and forest officials with assistance from Wildlife S.O.S, a New Delhi-based NGO

 The officials investigating the death of a tiger in Bhopal's Van Vihar national park three days ago have said blood samples are being sent to laboratories to establish the exact cause of death

 Two tiger cubs have been sighted at the Ranthambore national park in Sawai Madhopur district of Rajasthan, forest officials said here Saturday

 Hunger and the risk of epidemics stalked the storm-ravaged Bangladesh coast as the official death toll from last week's cyclone crossed the 2,500 mark, local officials said Monday.

Women are more affected by climate change than males, says a latest study by a coalition of developmental and environmental groups on the impact of global warming in Asia

Freshwater dolphins in the Amazon and Orinoco rivers, the two major rivers of South America, are at risk of extinction, a Colombian scientist has warned

Pointing out that climate change was no more a future threat but "we are already in it", Minister of State for Environment and Forests S. Regupathy Tuesday said forest fires were only adding to the problem

More than 30,000 birds have died along the Russian coastline following an oil and sulphur spill in the Black Sea.

 Workers at a trash dump on the outskirts of the Argentina capital found the remains of a glyptodont - a sort of giant armadillo - that experts say could be one million years old, according to the Spanish news agency EFE

 As debate rages in Europe over genetically modified maize and "Frankenstein's potatoes", the continent is quietly moving towards a different new species: the Euro-parrot

The National Board for Wildlife, headed by the prime minister, is formulating an action plan to protect critically endangered species and oversee environment-linked legislation to ensure they do not threaten wildlife habitats.

 Gone are the days when the famous bird sanctuary here seasonally drew over 300 species of winged visitors, bringing in thousands of tourists from all over the world

 Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Tuesday shot off a letter to Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, asking him not to send back in a haste the rogue elephants that had strayed from Orissa into Andhra Pradesh and created havoc there, after one of the tuskers died soon after returning.