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After years of climate-worsened damage to its vibrant corals, Australia's vast Great Barrier Reef could this week be added to UNESCO's list of endangered World Heritage sites.

Venice avoided being named a world heritage site in danger by UNESCO on Thursday, just weeks after Italy moved to ban large cruise ships from sailing into the city centre.

An official of the Darjeeling-based zoo said that it was the birth of the fifth red panda at the park this season.

Two endangered Syrian brown bears were headed to a new life in the United States on Sunday after being rescued from cramped conditions in a Lebanese zoo, two charities said.

Sulking Punjab leader Navjot Singh Sidhu is likely to be appointed as chief of the Congress' state unit shortly, sources said Thursday afternoon, as the party closes in on a formula to quell the infighting that has endangered its election campaign.

A critically endangered Sumatran elephant has been found decapitated with its tusks missing in Indonesia, the conservation agency said Monday, as it opened a poaching investigation.

Sulking Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu may share the job of party chief in Punjab with another leader as part of a formula to defuse intense infighting that has endangered the party's campaign for state polls next year.

Though Gerry Casida is on the priority list for a free Covid-19 vaccine in the Philippines because of his asthma, he's isn't planning to get the shot any time soon.

A baby gorilla has been born in the wild in Gabon from two parents who grew up in captivity in Europe, in a world-first that has delighted conservationists of the endangered species, the zoos announced on Tuesday.

A Russian appeals court on Monday upheld a nine-year prison sentence for Trevor Reed, a former US Marine who was convicted last year of endangering the lives of two police officers in August 2019, charges he denies.

Critically endangered Great Indian Bustards were hard to track, until environmentalists fitted them with telemetry devices that record the bird's location and communicate that data through mobile networks, all running on solar power that can keep the trackers working for years.

In Odisha, natural nesting of the endangered gharials, belonging to the family of crocodiles, has been seen near the Mahanadi river after 43 years, conservationists said. Know all about the endangered gharials.

Two Javan rhinoceros calves have been spotted at an Indonesian national park, offering a rare sighting of one of the world's most endangered mammals.

The majestic, endangered bird is massive, making it slow to maneuver in flight. It has poor frontal vision, and an unfortunate habit of scanning the earth while flying across the flat grasslands of India's western borders. That combination too often

The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) today appealed to state governments and district authorities to "strictly regulate" open borewells in their areas and punish those who flout the rules and endanger innocent lives.

After years of climate-worsened damage to its vibrant corals, Australia's vast Great Barrier Reef could this week be added to UNESCO's list of endangered World Heritage sites.

Venice avoided being named a world heritage site in danger by UNESCO on Thursday, just weeks after Italy moved to ban large cruise ships from sailing into the city centre.

An official of the Darjeeling-based zoo said that it was the birth of the fifth red panda at the park this season.

Two endangered Syrian brown bears were headed to a new life in the United States on Sunday after being rescued from cramped conditions in a Lebanese zoo, two charities said.

Sulking Punjab leader Navjot Singh Sidhu is likely to be appointed as chief of the Congress' state unit shortly, sources said Thursday afternoon, as the party closes in on a formula to quell the infighting that has endangered its election campaign.

A critically endangered Sumatran elephant has been found decapitated with its tusks missing in Indonesia, the conservation agency said Monday, as it opened a poaching investigation.

Sulking Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu may share the job of party chief in Punjab with another leader as part of a formula to defuse intense infighting that has endangered the party's campaign for state polls next year.

Though Gerry Casida is on the priority list for a free Covid-19 vaccine in the Philippines because of his asthma, he's isn't planning to get the shot any time soon.

A baby gorilla has been born in the wild in Gabon from two parents who grew up in captivity in Europe, in a world-first that has delighted conservationists of the endangered species, the zoos announced on Tuesday.

A Russian appeals court on Monday upheld a nine-year prison sentence for Trevor Reed, a former US Marine who was convicted last year of endangering the lives of two police officers in August 2019, charges he denies.

Critically endangered Great Indian Bustards were hard to track, until environmentalists fitted them with telemetry devices that record the bird's location and communicate that data through mobile networks, all running on solar power that can keep the trackers working for years.

In Odisha, natural nesting of the endangered gharials, belonging to the family of crocodiles, has been seen near the Mahanadi river after 43 years, conservationists said. Know all about the endangered gharials.

Two Javan rhinoceros calves have been spotted at an Indonesian national park, offering a rare sighting of one of the world's most endangered mammals.

The majestic, endangered bird is massive, making it slow to maneuver in flight. It has poor frontal vision, and an unfortunate habit of scanning the earth while flying across the flat grasslands of India's western borders. That combination too often

The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) today appealed to state governments and district authorities to "strictly regulate" open borewells in their areas and punish those who flout the rules and endanger innocent lives.