The death of hundreds of egrets in a lower Assam town has prompted the state forest department to write to all deputy commissioners to “inform” urban and rural civic bodies in their distri...

A male Royal Bengal tiger, which had strayed from the core forest area, died on Sunday while being taken to the Sajnekhali camp of Sunderbans for treatment, a senior Forest department official said. ...

An adult male leopard was fatally hit by a train in western Dooars on Tuesday night. Foresters said the animal was crossing the railway tracks near the rail bridge located between Malbazar and Chalsa...

The carcass of an adult male leopard was found near a stream flowing through a tea estate in Nagrakata block of Jalpaiguri on Thursday afternoon. The carcass, foresters said, bore injury marks that p...

A fishing cat, Bengal’s state animal, was allegedly beaten to death by some residents of a village in Howrah’s Shyampur block on Thursday. A snare was laid at Aima village, around 70km fr...

A hyena was allegedly killed, beheaded and chopped into pieces by some residents of a village in Purulia, forest department officials said. The carcass was found early on Wednesday at Dhanardih villa...

Sir — It was upsetting to read that the former captain of the Pakistan men’s cricket team, Shahid Afridi, has tested positive for Covid-19. He is the first high-profile cricketer to have tested po...

An adult wild “makna” (male without tusks) elephant was found dead at Takimari in the Rajganj block of Jalpaiguri district on Monday.Foresters suspect the animal was electrocuted. It had strayed o...

After Rani, Raja the hippopotamus also left the Assam State Zoo.The zoo authorities on Sunday bade a tearful adieu to Raja who was the oldest inmate of the zoo.Hippo (Hippopotamus amphibius) is one of...

Three tiger cubs were found dead in two forests in Maharashtra on Thursday at a time the state government has said its team had spotted two cubs of slain suspected man-eater Avni near a village in Yav...