Bargarh: Two persons were arrested by Forest Department officials in Odisha’s Bargarh district for allegedly painting an ...

Tensions between India and Pakistan have risen sharply in the weeks since a terrorist attack in Kashmir. On Wednesday, India hit Pakistan and appears to have lost aircraft in the strike.

Most notably, they discovered over 1,000 live turtles in a storage warehouse. The turtles all belonged to three species protected under Bangladeshi law: the Indian roofed turtle, the Indian eyed ...

The Indian flapshell turtle classified as a scheduled - I species, has been accorded stringent protection under the Wildlife Protection Act.

The Indian flapshell turtle is included in Schedule II of the Indian Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, which makes it illegal to hunt, trade, or keep these turtles as pets. Except for the headline, this ...

The turtle has now been released into the wild in Balasore, added Pati. The turtle is known as the Indian flapshell turtle. This one was an adult, believed to be between one and a half and two years ...

The Indian flapshell turtle is protected under the Indian Wildlife Protection Act of 1972. Smuggling turtles is a non-bailable offence under the Act, police said.

According to Mr Anjum, Indian flapshell turtles have been declared a vulnerable species as per International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) list.

Guwahati: Two truck drivers from Chhattisgarh were remanded in judicial custody on Tuesday for their alleged involvement in smuggling an Indian flapshell turtle, a species classified as ...

A highway rescue act, a turtle with patched-up shell — and now a wait The turtle's shell had cracked open, leaving a gaping wound in the area right around its neck — it didn't look like it would make ...