"The offenders have admitted that the turtles were being trafficked from Odisha in the wee hours of June 12. The plan was to sell them in local markets. However, the turtles suddenly died due to ...

More than 250 Indian flapshell turtles protected under the Wildlife Protection Act were found dead in the Balageria–Hatiari canal near Alua village of East Midnapore on June&...

The Siliguri regional unit of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) burnt over 18,000 kilos of seized narcotics at a garbage incinerator unit in Fulbari on the outskirts of Siliguri on Wednesd...

“It is well-known that the Red Panda, native to eastern Himalayas, is an endangered species. But people need to be aware about the endangered status of the Golden Mahseer too. Many locals catch ...

Australia declared the koala an endangered species two years after a parliamentary inquiry predicted they could be extinct by 2050 without urgent intervention. ...

Three persons, all residents of north India, were arrested after around 48 kilos of pangolin scales were recovered from their possession in Siliguri early on Thursday. According to forest sources, a ...

A 17.38-ftl-ong mature Gangetic dolphin was washed ashore on the Laxmipur sea beach in Bakkhali on Sunday early morning. Fishermen spotted the mammal, gasping for life then, and informed forest depar...

"The land seen on both sides of that internal road belongs to the forest department. While going back home after his night duty, the GRD jawan saw the blackbucks crossing the road in the morning ...

A police team rescued a slow loris, an endangered primate species, eight macaws and three turkeys from a village in Hasnabad in North 24-Parganas on Thursday. The seized animal and the birds have been...

I do not know who was more shocked, the hermit crab or me, when I picked up an auger shell (for the uninitiated, these are conical and spiral in shape) on the beach only to have a disgruntled set of c...