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1 March 2024, 18:00 PM Sundarbans & Forest
25 acres of forest land recovered in Chattogram
5 December 2023, 18:00 PM Sundarbans & Forest
Trains to have 20kmph speed limit inside Lawachara
18 February 2023, 14:20 PM Wild Life
Tiger census begins in the Sundarbans
15 December 2022, 15:34 PM Sundarbans & Forest
Fishermen, visitors banned from Sundarbans
31 May 2022, 18:00 PM Sundarbans & Forest

Indian man bitten by python whilst posing for selfie

Indian forest department officials promise strict action after a python attacked a man when a group was trying to click a photo with it.
29 September 2016, 12:04 PM

Legal notice seeks judicial probe into Bangabahadur’s death

A Supreme Court lawyer sends a legal notice requesting the government to form a judicial inquiry committee to probe the death of the Indian wild elephant, Bangabahadur.
17 August 2016, 07:27 AM

2 pythons rescued in Bagerhat

Wildlife team of forest department rescues two pythons from two separate areas in Bagerhat and frees them to the Sundarbans.
8 August 2016, 14:06 PM

Indian team due Aug 3 to take back washed away elephant

India decides to send a rescue team to Bangladesh on August 3 to take back the stranded elephant that came floating along with the currents of the Brahmaputra River.
27 July 2016, 13:01 PM

Cricketer Jadeja faces inquiry over lion selfies

Wildlife officials in India order an inquiry after international cricketer Ravindra Jadeja posted photos online of him and his wife posing in front of endangered Asiatic lions.
18 June 2016, 05:20 AM

India puts Gujarat lions on trial after three people killed

Officials in India "arrest" 18 lions as they try to find a man eater suspected of killing three people.
14 June 2016, 13:42 PM

Tiger Temple to face charges over dead tigers

Wildlife authorities in Thailand have said they will press charges against a Buddhist temple where the bodies of 40 dead tiger cubs were found.
2 June 2016, 06:07 AM

[Watch] Moments before Lowland Gorilla Harambe was killed

Zoo officials on May 29 shot dead a gorilla after a four-year-old boy fell into its enclosure in the US city of Cincinnati.
1 June 2016, 08:10 AM

Thailand Tiger Temple: Forty dead cubs found in freezer

Forty tiger cub bodies are found in freezer at a Thai Buddhist temple accused of wildlife trafficking and animal abuse.
1 June 2016, 07:29 AM

Officials seize tigers from controversial Thai temple

Wildlife authorities in Thailand begin removing tigers from a Buddhist temple, after accusations of wildlife trafficking and animal abuse.
31 May 2016, 06:44 AM

Monkey seen caring for dying mate, grieves after she dies

In one of the first examples of compassionate care and grief in a wild monkey, an alpha male of a group of snub-nosed monkeys and his dying partner spent a final, tender hour together before she passed away.
24 May 2016, 05:36 AM

Florida crocodiles: Man-eating Nile beasts confirmed in swamps

Florida wildlife experts express concern about three man-eating Nile crocodiles found in local swamps, amid fears more may be at large.
21 May 2016, 11:12 AM

Tourists asked to fight wildlife trade

Conservationists have launched a global campaign asking the public to help tackle the illegal trade in wildlife.
8 May 2016, 05:08 AM

3rd forest fire in Sundarbans in 3 weeks

A fire broke out in Chandpai range of the Sundarbans in Sharankhola upazila of Bagerhat. This is the third incident of forest fire in Chandpai range over the last three weeks.
18 April 2016, 07:12 AM

32 wild birds, monkeys rescued in Tongi

The forest department with the help of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) rescue 30 wild birds and two Rhesus monkeys at a bird market at Tongi in Gazipur.
17 April 2016, 11:32 AM

Wild tiger count rises first time in century

The world's count of wild tigers roaming forests from Russia to Vietnam goes up for the first time in more than a century, with 3,890 counted by conservation groups and national governments in the latest global census, wildlife conservation groups says.
11 April 2016, 05:33 AM

Japan kills 333 Antarctic Minke whales for ‘scientific research’

In the name of ‘scientific research’, Japan kills 333 minke whales, including over 200 pregnant females, in the Antarctic in 2015-16 whaling season.
27 March 2016, 13:54 PM

Thrilling find in Borneo - a rhino species long thought gone

For the first time in 40 years, a species of rhino has been seen in Kalimantan, the Indonesia part of Borneo.
25 March 2016, 06:37 AM

Never-before-seen life spotted by Hawaiian deep-sea expedition

After about eight dives into the deep water of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument of north-west Hawaii, some thousands of samples and images of never-before-seen life and landforms have been collected.
23 March 2016, 07:00 AM

Day labourer found dead

Police yesterday morning recovered the body of a young day labourer from the roof of a tin-shed house in Mehedibagh area of Pallabi.
22 March 2016, 18:00 PM