The forest department has suspended all safaris in the State’s tiger reserves from Tuesday morning.
The Supreme Court’s interim order banning tourism activities in the core areas of tiger reserves has

The Supreme Court has made it clear: tigers and tourism cannot co-exist. In a landmark judgment, the Supreme Court on Monday banned all kinds of tourism activities across the 40 tiger reserves in the

Veterinary doctors treating the tuberculosis (TB) affected sloth bears in Bannerghatta Zoo say there is no cure for the disease. The disease cannot even be detected early because there are no TB detec

Animal lovers have raised concern over a series of deaths of sloth bears at the Bannerghatta Zoo. Three bears died this month, taking the toll to nine since January. All the deceased bears were affect

Bengaluru has lost its traditional green belts due to rapid urbanisation in recent years, so the concept of a ‘Green Belt’ around the Bengaluru International Airport is a welcome one.

A green belt o

Who says only dogs and cats find their way home? Two tuskers, captured and relocated to the Kollegal forests along the Karnataka-Tamil Nadu border returned to their old stomping grounds after two year

The city’s traffic conditions are worsening by the day, but Bengalureans encounter their worst nightmare in the Central Business District (CBD), where traffic crawls in peak hours as school children

Two friends of deceased techie Satwik Shastri in the Bannerghatta forest may face a prison term of up to three years with fines of up to Rs 25,000 each for violating wildlife protection laws. Satwik a

In a last ditch attempt to revive the vulture population in the state, the forest department is mulling over a proposal to set up a ‘vulture restaurant’ in Ramanagara where a colony of long-billed vul

A vehicle belonging to the state-run Jungle Lodges and Resorts (JLR) crushed a spotted deer to death in the herbivore safari of Bannerghatta Biological Park on Tuesday evening, the day when the park i