On the morning of 2 January, the second day of the new year, I woke to a series of worried text messages from family and friends. “Are you okay? How bad is the smoke?” I rushed to the window, saw fire ...

The Fatehabad district authorities have banned blade wire fencing around fields that acts as a death trap for unsuspecting blackbucks. It is not the first time the ban has been imposed, but the orders ...

The Uttar Pradesh government on Wednesday passed an order, re-enforcing an earlier decision that no barbed wire or blade wire should be used to fence farm fields. Instead of these, the order states, ...

When conservation photographer Doug Gimesy moved to his property in the Otways in south-west Victoria last year, he saw something distressing — an eastern grey kangaroo tangled in a stretch of barbed ...

In 1876 salesman John W. Gates brought barbed wire to Texas when he wagered $1 million that he could build a fence that would capably contain cattle. Some incredulous gambler took the bet. Gates ...

In a decision that could create a stir among farmers who have been battling the menace of stray cattle entering their fields and ruining crops, the government has passed an order, re-enforcing an ...