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Two poachers arrested with 19 deer hides in Bagerhat

Detective Branch of police today arrested two poachers with 19 deer hides at Sharankhola upazila, said Pankaj Chandra Roy, superintendent of Bagerhat police, at a press briefing.
23 January 2021, 10:54 AM

Poacher selling tiger skin for Tk 13 lakh arrested in Bagerhat

A poacher was arrested yesterday with a tiger skin from Rayenda Bazar of Sharankhola in Bagerhat.
20 January 2021, 11:50 AM

Facebook video shows Sylhet city councillors having ‘wild bird meat’

A live video showing five councillors of Sylhet City Corporation reportedly eating wild bird meat at a restaurant in Sylhet was posted on Facebook last night.
12 December 2020, 11:57 AM

Watch: Indian officials rescue elephant that fell down a well

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.
22 November 2020, 11:57 AM

Wildlife in 'catastrophic decline' due to human destruction, scientists warn

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.
10 September 2020, 07:45 AM

Jungle cat rescued in Panchagarh

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.
6 September 2020, 14:46 PM

‘Lost’ elephant shrew found in Africa

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.
18 August 2020, 18:00 PM

Siberian tiger kills zookeeper in Zurich

A female Siberian tiger attacked and killed a 55-year-old zookeeper at Zurich's zoo on Saturday, the authorities say.
6 July 2020, 04:41 AM

Tranquil Bogura college campus becomes bird paradise

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.
4 July 2020, 12:48 PM

Cub handed over to forest department after 7-day wait for mother bear

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.
24 June 2020, 15:49 PM

Death of pregnant elephant: Indian tribunal forms committee to take action

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.
8 June 2020, 05:24 AM

Sylhet wild animal killings: Hunted just for sport

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.
30 May 2020, 14:48 PM

9 wild animals killed by villagers in Sylhet

Nine wild animals, including six golden jackals, were killed by villagers at Jaintapur upazila in Sylhet.
29 May 2020, 17:09 PM

7ft long dolphin found dead in Halda River

A Gangetic dolphin (Platanista gangetica), over seven feet long, is found dead in Halda River of Chattogram’s Raozan upazila.
24 May 2020, 13:29 PM

West Bengal forest dept to keep tigers away from human settlements after Amphan

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.
20 May 2020, 05:49 AM

Scientists discover a new snake, name it after Salazar Slytherin

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.
22 April 2020, 05:36 AM

Deserted Thai beaches lure rare turtles to build most nests in 20 years

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.
20 April 2020, 07:03 AM

Dead dolphin found in Halda River

Locals recover a dead Gangetic dolphin (Platanista gangetica) from Halda River in Hathazari upazila of Chattogram.
21 March 2020, 19:24 PM

Find out reasons behind deaths of 33 animals at Sylhet eco park: HC to govt

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.
5 March 2020, 06:27 AM

UN accepts India’s proposal to save three endangered species

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.
21 February 2020, 06:56 AM