Forest officials in India’s southern Tamil Nadu state said on Friday they used a crane to pull an elephant from a well, after working for more than 12 hours to rescue the animal.

Parbatya Chattogram Forest and Land Rights Protection Movement has called upon authorities concerned to take measures to protect the Sangu-Matamuhuri Sanctuary and the Reserve Natural Forest and take action against those destroying the forest.

The average size of wildlife populations has plummeted by two-thirds worldwide since 1970 as forests were felled to grow food, green group WWF says, warning that harming ecosystems hikes the risk to humans of infectious diseases like Covid-19.

Tea workers rescued a jungle cat, popularly known as Banbiral, from a tea garden in the bordering Shibchandi village under Tentulia upazila in Panchagarh this afternoon.

For half a century scientists feared that the Somali elephant shrew had vanished from the face of the Earth. No one had seen so much as a whisker.

A female Siberian tiger attacked and killed a 55-year-old zookeeper at Zurich's zoo on Saturday, the authorities say.

Once crowded and noisy, the Bogura Govt Azizul Haque College campus remains quiet for months, due to closure during the pandemic. The silver lining? The green grounds becoming a bird paradise.

The forest department has decided to ban the netting of fishes from all rivers and canals in the Sundarbans for the next two months, starting July 1.

With seven days gone and no sign of the mother bear, Bhadanta Nandamala Thera, head of Lama Zinamayzu Orphanage in Bandarban, handed over a bear cub to the forest department.

Taking cognisance of the death of a pregnant wild elephant at Silent Valley Forest in the southern state of Kerala, India’s National Green Tribunal forms a committee and directed it to submit an action-taken report on the matter.

The Sylhet Forest Division has filed a case accusing two named and eight unnamed persons for killing nine wild animals in Jaintiapur upazila of the district.

Nine wild animals, including six golden jackals, were killed by villagers at Jaintapur upazila in Sylhet.

A Gangetic dolphin (Platanista gangetica), over seven feet long, is found dead in Halda River of Chattogram’s Raozan upazila.

As extremely severe cyclone Amphan is set to make landfall, forest authorities in West Bengal, India keep a close watch on the protection of Royal Bengal tigers in the Sundarbans.

A team of Indian researchers are making the fictional world collide with the scientific one by naming a new species of snake they discovered -- "Trimeresurus Salazar" -- after Salazar Slytherin of Harry Potter.

Thailand has found the largest number of nests of rare leatherback sea turtles in two decades on beaches bereft of tourists because of the coronavirus pandemic, environmentalists say.

Locals recover a dead Gangetic dolphin (Platanista gangetica) from Halda River in Hathazari upazila of Chattogram.

The High Court directs the government to form an enquiry committee to find out the reasons behind the deaths of 33 animals and birds at the wildlife conservation centre in Tilagarh Eco Park of Sylhet and the persons responsible for the deaths.

India’s proposal to include the critically-endangered Asian elephant and two large species of birds -- Great Indian Bustard and Bengal Florican -- in the UN Convention on Migratory (CMS) Species, is unanimously accepted.

Abandoned by her sons, shunned by her neighbours and branded a witch. Mosammat Rashida's crime? Her husband was killed by a Bengal tiger.