Wildlife experts have started combing forests to count the number of tigers roaming in the Banke National Park (BNP) for the first time after it was declared a national park three years ago.

The European Union will ban three of the world's most widely-used pesticides for two years because of fears they are linked to a plunge in the population of bees critical to the production of crops

The total number of fatalities from H7N9 bird flu in Shanghai has risen to 13 after the death of an 89-year-old man on Monday morning, local health authorities said.

Chitwan livestock officials have confirmed that another poultry farm in Mangalpur area of the district has been affected by avian influenza, few weeks after bird flu cases were detected in Bharatpu

After Chitwan and Rupandehi, bird flu cases have been reported in Bhairahawa on Thursday.

Asian countries on Thursday urged renewed vigilance against a spread of H7N9 bird flu after Taiwan reported a case of the deadly strain, the world's first outside mainland China.

The self-governing island urged its residents to take "enhanced precautions" when visiting China -- placing Shanghai, Beijing and five Chinese provinces on particular alert for travellers after at least 22 deaths were confirmed there.

India's first underground strategic naval base that was to house its nuclear-armed submarine has run into a tangle over green norms with the regional office of the Ministry of Environment and Fores

The death toll in the deadly bird flu outbreak in China mounted to 13 with two more fatalities on Sunday, while the total number of H7N9 cases touched 60 with 11 more reported — the highest in a single day.

Shanghai, China’s largest metropolis and financial hub, was the worst-hit — reporting two more deaths from H7N9 bird flu beside three new cases of infection.

Jagadish Pandey, Chief of the District Livestock Office Jhapa, said bird flu was confirmed at Mechinagar, Chandragadhi and Kumarkhod in Jhapa.

At least two peacocks died in a remote village of Tharparkar district on Monday, sources told Dawn.

The peacocks, they said, were found dead in Sangelo village in Diplo taluka.