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.

Wildlife traffickers not only threaten these species with extinction, but also are supplying a direct threat to wider human populations, according to a report titled “Wildlife Trafficking in Asia: Evolution, Trajectory and Ways to Stop it” by Freeland, a counter-trafficking organisation.

With help of locals, police rescue a black vulture from Ramchandrapur union under Sadar upazila in Gaibandha.

Every Bangladeshi living overseas is used to having their motherland associated with natural disasters, namely floods and cyclones. This can feel humiliating at times. It is the expatriates’ burden to perpetually challenge the sometimes negative, international image of Bangladesh.

The High Court observes that any notified forest area, no matter whether it is declared reserved forest or not, cannot be allocated or leased for any purpose that damages the country’s forest.

Five Himalayan Vultures are rescued at a village in Sadar upazila of Gaibandha.

Six wild elephants have died after falling into a waterfall at the Khao Yai National Park in Thailand.

A team of Department of Narcotics Control rescues 457 plum-headed parakeets from the possession of four people during regular patrol in Shiberer Hat area of Chapainawabganj sadar upazila.

A total of 651 birds of different species have been rescued from Savar and the capital’s Kamrangirchar.

Fires raging in the Amazon pose a risk to health including from respiratory diseases, especially in children, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.

Brazil says it was ready to accept foreign aid to help fight fires in the Amazon but only if it could determine how it was spent, in an apparent attempt to smooth over a public spat between the Brazilian and French presidents.

Brazil on Monday rejected aid from G7 countries to fight wildfires in the Amazon, with a top official telling French President Emmanuel Macron to take care of "his home and his colonies."

The thousands of fires burning in the Amazon don't look like the major forest fires of Europe or North America -- instead, they are fueled mainly by branches, vegetation and other byproducts of deforestation in cleared areas, experts say.