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16 Aug 2017

Critically endangered Siamese crocodile eggs hatched in Cambodia

Listed on International Union for Conservation of Nature`s (IUCN) red list as critically endangered, the global population of Siamese crocodiles is declining at an alarming rate.

29 Mar 2017

Indonesian man becomes Python's dinner; police recover corpse from inside serpent!

As per a report published in BBC, 25-year-old Akbar went missing on Sunday on the island of Sulawesi, after leaving to harvest palm oil.

23 Mar 2017

Australian night parrot, thought to be extinct, spotted after 100 years

The sighting of the night parrot, a small nocturnal bird native to Australia, came three years after the bird was declared extinct and 2,000 km from where it was first rediscovered in Western Queensland.

20 Mar 2017

Man-animal conflict: 59 tuskers, 121 tigers, 450 humans died last year

Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dave said in a written reply that out of the 31 people, who died of tiger attacks in 2015-16, the highest toll of 18 was reported from West Bengal.

19 Mar 2017

Largest desert freshwater lake in China sees expansion

The surface area of the Hongjiannao lake, located in Shaanxi province, stood at 32.94 sq.km by the end of last year, up around 4.5 per cent year on year.

18 Mar 2017

Forest department places two cages with baits to catch tiger

With the tiger killing cattle frequently at Sukla village in Rukhad forest range, its habitants were not venturing out of their house during the dark.

18 Mar 2017

Children who play outdoors protect environment, says study

Environmental awareness programmes like Girl Guides or Boy Scouts may help develop children's environmental awareness and action, according to researchers.

14 Mar 2017

Vietnam seizes 100 kgs of rhino horn from Kenya

Vietnam is a hot market for rhino horn, believed to have medicinal properties and is in high demand among the communist nation`s growing middle class.

14 Mar 2017

Arctic sea ice loss due to natural variations: Study

Many scientists suspect that the trend now underway is a combination of global warming and natural climate variability.

26 Feb 2017

Endangered Olive Ridley sea turtles back in Odisha

Endangered Olive Ridley sea turtles, which were tagged for the purpose of studying their migration pattern, have reappeared for mass nesting in Odisha.

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