RAJAHMUNDRY: A rare 15-ft-long king cobra caught recently in a residential area of Andhra Pradesh's East Godavari district has been released in a forest after the Visakhapatnam Zoological Park refused to house it.
The veterinarians, who examined the rare reptile, found it to be pregnant, forest o
LONDON Rhinoceros in the wild may be pushed to extinction by the end of this decade if their unrelenting poaching continues at the present rate, experts have warned. The poaching of black and white rhinoceros has soared in last six years. While as 13 rhinos were slaughtered in 2007, that number spi
Collecting turtle eggs is still legal and will remain so until at least 2015, according to government regulations, despite recent scientific reports stating that the population of the majority of turtle species is declining. “We have a moratorium that will end at 2015, then we will look at other
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KATHMANDU, April 9 : In two separate operations, police have arrested nine persons for smuggling of the skin of protected red panda and statues made of elephant ivory.
The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police nabbed four people, who were preparing to sell red panda skin
KOLKATA: The skin and bones of a leopard and an otter's hide were seized from the forests of Baikunthapur in North Bengal on Friday.
"We have arrested three persons, all residents of Rajasthan. Initial investigation has revealed that the skins were supposed to be sent to China via Nepal," said DF
