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Officials from 13 nations are meeting to discuss conservation efforts to save the endangered tiger.   Officials from countries where tigers still roam - Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia,...

Continuing a series on Ecovillages I started last month, this article delves into some of the unique features and successes of the extraordinary Auroville ecovillage in India...

Average surface temperature predictions for the Indian sub-continent

A report, citing figures obtained from the government, says Hong Kong’s roadside air pollution reached life-threatening levels one in every eight days last year.

Time is running out for one of the world’s most beautiful, charismatic and powerful species, the tiger.  According to conservationists, the wild tiger population has declined by 95 percent during the past century. ...

A Chinese court has sentenced a man to 12 years in jail, plus a fine, for killing an endangered Indochinese tiger - which was made into a stew and eaten...

A Chinese court has sentenced a man to 12 years in jail, plus a fine, for killing an endangered Indochinese tiger - which was made into a stew and eaten...

Two greater one-horned rhinos were found murdered with their horns missing inside India’s Kaziranga National Park - and authorities believe it was the work of poachers posing as park visitors...

The Przewalski’s horse of Mongolia’s Gobi desert–considered the world’s only remaining, “true” wild horse–has had its share of existential challenges over the centuries...

India’s Bagha-Chitauni rail link has unexpectedly created a swampy new home for a family of rhinos. Although in the 1990’s, Bihar forest officials fought - and lost - a legal battle to stop the railway track relaying...

Only 80 wild elephants are left in Vietnam, according to Vietnam’s state-run newspaper, Lao Dong.   Experts at the Vietnam Forest Management Agency workshop, held earlier this week, reported the elephant population...

“There are nine million bicycles in Beijing That’s a fact It’s a thing we can’t deny Like the fact that I will love you till I die.” Enjoy these great bicycle photos from Beijing while listening...

In Nepal’s Bardia National Park, bodyguards are protecting greater one-horned rhinos from poachers. The rhino bodyguards - riding atop elephants - are making a difference: Since deployment of the program 18 months...

Dung-sniffing dogs have confirmed that Javan rhinos are indeed still surviving in Vietnam. The WWF survey of Vietnam’s Javan rhino population is off to a promising start: Two dung piles and recent footprints!

Thanks to rampant poaching and habitat destruction, rhinos have the unfortunate distinction of being one of the most endangered animals on earth. Over the last 30 years, the world’s overall rhinoceros population has...