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This highly unusual behaviour of the big cats has been revealed in a study conducted by a lion researcher Meena Venkatraman.
Australia's total value of trade in goods and services increased 14.6 per cent in 2008-09 to $563.7 billion, according to a Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade publication, Composition of Trade Australia 2008-09, released today.
joint media release - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), AusAID, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the Australian Defence Force (ADF).
Wildlife officers seized two tons of elephant ivory and five rhino horns at Kenya's main airport that were to be illegally shipped to Malaysia, an official said Tuesday.
The seventh round of the Australia-Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue and related site visits took place from 7 to 9 December in Hanoi.
Declining tiger population and encroachment at the Namdapha National Park, the only one in the world to have four species of big cats, in Arunachal Pradesh's Changlang district, has been a major cause of concern for forest department officials here.
The Sathyamangalam wildlife sanctuary in western Tamil Nadu may soon be declared a tiger reserve.
Between tigers increasingly venturing to the fringes of the Ranthambore National Park and desperate villagers moving in for grazing, between a forest department guarding a success story and a relocation process dragging along, the ground for conflict is only growing.
Australia played an active role at the thirteenth session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva (1-26 March), engaging on pressing human rights issues and encouraging respect for international human rights standards.
It seems Shera, the Commonwealth Games mascot, is fighting for survival in a system rotten from top to bottom.
The Australian National Commission for UNESCO has acknowledged the 150th anniversary of the Melbourne Cup as an event of cultural significance to Australians.
Extinct carnivorous mammals shrank in size during a global warming event that occurred 55 million years ago, according to a new University of Florida study.
Australia and Mexico have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to formalise political consultations between the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Fateh Singh Rathore, India's pioneer tiger conservationist, has called the Ranthambore forest officials' conduct in Bhuripahadi utterly callous and cowardly.
Emeritus Professor Donald Denoon, from the Australian National University, will tonight deliver the fourth R. G. Neale lecture.
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) welcomes the launch today, Friday 6 August, of a safety awareness campaign for international students.
Environmentalists in the southern states may well be doing a jig in the woods this year as the tiger population has reached healthy levels. In contrast, the tiger count in the northern states has seen a decline, say experts.
With instructions from the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), the state forest department has begun search for alternative tiger habitats in the state for a Sariska repeat.
As children in inner tubes bob on the calm waters of this small ocean cove, a 550-pound (250-kilogram) dolphin zips through the crowd in pursuit of raw squid tossed out by a trainer.
After recent incidents of tiger attacks on villagers or their cattle, people living near the Ranthambore National Park have visibly turned aggressive against wild animals.