Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
The Delhi government has also urged the municipal corporations to keep 10 reserve teams on stand-by. The Hauz Khas lake inside the Deer Park was shut down Thursday after five ducks were found dead, amid a bird flu scare. A notice on the park’s main gate stated that the lake …
GURGAON: Alarmed over death of migratory birds at Delhi zoo due to bird flu, authorities at Sultanpur National Park, one of the popular destination for migratory birds in the region, along with experts from Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) has started sanitization of the park to avoid untoward incident because …
In the wake of the death of nine water birds due to H5 avian influenza, the Delhi government on Wednesday announced shutting down of the National Zoological Park. Delhi development minister Gopal Rai said the government will hold a meeting with doctors and experts to analyse the situation after three …
Bird Flu returned to haunt India, only a month after India was declared free from avian influenza (H5N1) on September 5, 2016. Two days into the death of nine water birds in Delhi, at least 10 more birds were found dead in the city. Gwalior zoo met with the same …
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is recognised as the primary cause of human tuberculosis worldwide. However, substantial evidence suggests that the burden of Mycobacterium bovis, the cause of bovine tuberculosis, might be underestimated in human beings as the cause of zoonotic tuberculosis. In 2013, results from a systematic review and meta-analysis of global …
India is free from Avian influenza (H5N1), popularly known as bird flu, from September 5, the department of animal husbandry, dairying and fisheries in the ministry of agriculture and farmers welfare has declared. In a notification, the ministry of agriculture has said that there was outbreak of bird flu on …
JAIPUR: The shepherds belonging to the Rebari community of Kothar Panchayat in Pali district are in low spirits after a harsh infection killed their livestock, battering a trade to the area's already fragile economy. Heerka Ram Devasi, is one such shepherd of Vellar village who lost 61 goats and now …
The new FAO action plan on antimicrobial resistance 2016-2020 , aims to help countries equip their agricultural sectors to respond to growing threat. According to FAO's Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance: "Antimicrobial medicines play a critical role in the treatment of diseases of farm animals and plants. Their use is …
Most species of forest birds native to the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i have crossed the tipping point, with multiple extinctions predicted in forthcoming decades, researchers have warned. Using 35 years' worth of, scientists showed six of seven species of native forest birds have seen rapid population declines, primarily driven by …
Just like humans, monkeys in zoos are not eating enough fruits and vegetables. This may have led to them having "humanized" gut flora. Everyone knows that monkeys are among humans' closest relatives. But currently making news are claims that they are becoming more human-like. This is especially true for captive …
Plasmodium knowlesi and Plasmodium cynomolgi are two malaria parasites naturally transmissible between humans and wild macaque through mosquito vectors, while Plasmodium inui can be experimentally transmitted from macaques to humans. One of their major natural hosts, the long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis), is host to two other species of Plasmodium (Plasmodium …
Scientists in China have found that a rabies vaccine usually given to dogs can also protect livestock. Rabies in domestic cattle and camels, infected by wild dog and fox bites, has been on the rise in north-west China. Because there is no oral vaccine for wild animals in China, it …
Bovine brucellosis was first reported in Peninsular Malaysia in 1950. A subsequent survey conducted in the country revealed that the disease was widespread. Current knowledge on the potential risk factors for brucellosis occurrence on cattle farms in Malaysia is lacking. Therefore, we conducted a case-control study to identify the potential …
Although cancer rarely acts as an infectious disease, a recently emerged transmissible cancer in Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) is virtually 100% fatal. Devil facial tumour disease (DFTD) has swept across nearly the entire species’ range, resulting in localized declines exceeding 90% and an overall species decline of more than 80% …
Authorities are now blaming climate change for the recent outbreak of Anthrax in the Far North of Russia, sickening 72 nomadic herders and killing over 2,300 reindeers. According to the report from The Guardian, the thawing of the permafrost due to the increasing temperature releases a certain strain of Anthrax …
The US government is set to unleash drones that fire vaccine-covered M&Ms; in a bid to save the endangered black-footed ferret, a species that is facing a plague epidemic across America’s great plains. The US Fish and Wildlife (FWS) has developed a plan to bombard ferret habitat in Montana with …
Researchers identified a novel plasmid-mediated colistin-resistance gene in porcine and bovine colistin-resistant Escherichia coli that did not contain mcr-1. The gene, termed mcr-2, a 1,617 bp phosphoethanolamine transferase harboured on an IncX4 plasmid, has 76.7% nucleotide identity to mcr-1. Prevalence of mcr-2 in porcine colistin-resistant E. coli (11/53) in Belgium …
The presence of domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) in Brazilian protected areas is fairly frequent. The interaction of such dogs with native animals leads to population declines for many species, particularly carnivores. In this paper the main threats dogs bring about Brazilian biodiversity are assessed with a focus on protected …
Hyderabad: The month of May claimed three more lives at the Nehru Zoological Park. A barking deer, a spotted deer and a swamp deer fell victim to the adverse impact of highly polluted water of the adjoining Mir Alam Tank that seeps into the moats within the zoo premises. The …
Aizawl/Agartala: The Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) disease which has so far killed at least 3,500 pigs in Mizoram has largely been contained, officials said in Aizawl on Wednesday. The Tripura government’s animal resource development department (ARDD) also sounded an alert in the villages and government farms along the …
