Animal Kingdom

Healing with animals Animal therapy or pet therapy refers to the use of animals as a way to help people cope with and recover from...

Injured by manjha, 120 birds saved HCL Foundation in partnership with Animal Warriors Conservation Society (AWCS) is working on a Responsible Kite Flying campaign in...

Bird numbers on a global decline Bird populations are declining around the world. While many factors contribute to this decline, there is no denying that...

Saving the Great Indian Bustard The Great Indian Bustard is on the brink of extinction with only 150 of these birds still left (out of...

Scope of Animal-Assisted Therapy At the 4th Indian Congress for Persons with Disabilities, held at the Kark Kubel Institute, Anaikatti on 9th February, 2023, Humane...

Asian Waterbird Census 2023 reflects worrying trends The Annual Asian Waterbird Census (AWC) 2023 survey revealed worrying shifts in migration patterns of waterbirds. The survey...

India remains an attractive wintering destination for migratory birds Every year, millions of birds from distant lands like Russia, Europe and Central Asia arrive at...

Rescuing and rehabilitating In January 2023, 16 Alexandrine chicks, about 3-4 weeks’ old were seized by the CID forest cell from illegal pet traders in...

Wildlife Protection Bill to Stiffen Penalties Wildlife Protection Bill 2022 was approved by the RajyaSabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament, on December 8,...

Feed, but Responsibly We live in an ecosystem in which stray animals have their own part to play. And the idea of not wanting to...

Reducing Dog Fights on Streets The increasing stray dog population poses a threat to the peaceful coexistence between humans and animals. And an easy way...

Academic Institutions, a haven for birds! Indian academic institutions are always in the news for a variety of reasons, however, one would have never thought...

Responsible Kite Flying Imagine being a bird, flying free in the open skies and suddenly out of nowhere a single string of thread, hanging from...

India, the Hotspot of Human Animal Conflict In our relentless pursuit of development and urbanization, we seem to have forgotten that humans are not the...

Reverse Engineering with Bees Homo Sapiens have always believed that we are the most superior beings, being the most intelligent. While we have shown great...

Dim The Light for Birds at Night! Believe it or not, light has the potential to alter the migration patterns and routes of birds, as...

SitanaPonticeriana: The Fan Throated Lizards The fan throated lizards are tiny and vivid reptiles found in the coastal areas of Southern Asia. Fourteen species of...

Five Rare Reptiles of India Gharial:The gharial is a crocodilian from the family G a v i a l i d a e and among...

21% of All Reptile Species Is Under the Threat of Extinction With 31 species gone extinct, 1 in 5 reptile species is facing the threat...

Safely Back to the Sea Every year, between the months of December-March, the Olive Ridley turtles arrive in large numbers on the East Coast of...

    The Great Hornbill Hornbills are large birds, which is spectacular and is known for their awe-inspiring beak. The most prominent feature of the...

    The Tale of Great Indian Bustard The Great Indian Bustard is a large, spectacular bird found in the grasslands of India and parts...

Bird Singing Competitions – an emerging threat to conservation A recent paper published on human-bird relationship in the journal ‘Global Ecology and Conservation’ suggests that...

NCF’s efforts to minimize Human-Animal Conflict National Conservation Foundation (NCF) was founded in 1996 as a public charitable trust. NCF aims to preserve India’s rich...

The growing conflict between wild animals and humans Forests are vanishing slowly and some forests are being converted only for anthropogenic uses. As a result,...

Hunting the haunted Ghost Net ‘Ghost Net’ is a popular term used for the trash and abandoned nets that were once used for fishing. These...

Slowly Vanishing Olive Ridley Turtle One of the endangered marine species, the Olive Ridley Turtle is facing many challenges today. The Olive Ridley Turtles arrive...

    What can you do for House Sparrows? House sparrow is the state bird of Delhi. It is a domestic bird that has made...

Saving Pitbull Pitbull is a sub-species in dogs, which is apparently ‘trending’ amongst pet enthusiasts in various cities. Friendicoes’ record indicates that the ‘trending’ sub-species...

    Coexistence with kindness and mutual respect is the motto of Friendicoes For thousands of years, humans have been sharing food, shelter, and their...

Spay your pet with Humane Animal Society Every year on the last Tuesday of February, World Spay Day is celebrated. On this day, Humane Animal...

‘Sweet Sparrow Come Back Home’ Kanpur man GauravBajpai with the help of volunteers installed 7,500 wooden nests for sparrows around the city to provide healthy...

Swiftly Disappearing House Sparrows It is safe to say that sparrows are the first birds that we started to recognise when we were growing up...

Over 1,200 pangolins poached, trafficked in India during 2018-22 On the eve of World Pangolin Day, celebrated on February 18 every year, the World Wildlife...