Bengal to set up super-specialty hospital for tigers in Sunderbans

IANS | August 15, 2023 7:08 PM

Kolkata, Aug 15 (IANS) In a first of its kind, the forest department of West Bengal in association with the state zoo authority has decided to set up a supers-specialty hospital in the Sunderbans with an exclusive ward for the treatment of Royal Bengal Tigers.

Finally, ban on two more vet drugs to halt vulture decline in India

By Vishal Gulati | August 8, 2023 1:15 PM

New Delhi, Aug 8 (IANS) The Central government has finally imposed a long-awaited ban on two veterinary painkiller ketoprofen and aceclofenac drugs, considered a commonly used drug for cattle but deadly for vultures, to rapidly halt current population declines in four vulture species that have declined by up to 99.9 per cent.