Thirty-First Night Through the Eyes of Birds and Animals
For people Thirty-First Night is a celebration, but for birds and animals the fireworks, noise and smoke make it a night of terror and injury.
For people Thirty-First Night is a celebration, but for birds and animals the fireworks, noise and smoke make it a night of terror and injury.
Environment adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan has called for positive competition to protect wildlife, saying no religion supports cruelty to voiceless animals.
The lioness that got out of its cage at the National Zoo in Mirpur, Dhaka, has been tranquilised and returned safely, and a two-member committee is investigating.
A wild raccoon broke into a liquor store in Virginia, drank from several bottles and was found passed out before animal control released it back into the wild.
A survey of 1,063 people in 10 Indian cities including Delhi found 91.4 per cent believe local stray dogs help prevent crime and keep the area safe.
EnvironmentA Supreme Court lawyer sent a legal notice on 2 December 2025 to the Ishwardi UNO and the upazila livestock officer, seeking criminal action against those responsible for drowning eight puppies in a pond on the upazila parishad premises in Pabna; he said no action had yet been taken.
Locals in Tahirpur, Sunamganj, caught a fishing cat cub in a paddy field and handed it to the forest department.
EnvironmentVeterinary doctors in Ujjain, in India's Madhya Pradesh state, closed the wounds of a cobra struck by an excavator at a dig in November 2025 with 80 stitches in a two-hour operation, and the snake was reported stable.
Three fishing cat kittens found in a paddy field in Saltha, Faridpur, have been handed to the forest department, which will release them once they grow.
Wildlife in Lawachara National Park at Kamalganj in Moulvibazar is thought to be roaming less freely, though the forest department refuses to accept that animal numbers have fallen.
AgribusinessFisheries and Livestock Adviser Farida Akhter said on 24 November 2025 that a policy would be framed to control animal feed prices, and that the government had moved to cut the price of electricity used in the sector.
New Zealand has declared that it will completely eradicate feral cats roaming its forests by 2050, a decision that has drawn sharp criticism at home.
The belief that animals sense earthquakes in advance dates back to Roman times, and a space-based tracking project is now testing whether it holds up scientifically.