Sitesh Ranjan Deb, who lost an eye and much of his face to a bear in 1991, still runs a refuge for sick and injured wildlife in Sreemangal but fears it has no future without steady support.
A family-run wildlife shelter in Sreemangal that has cared for animals for about 50 years fears closure as monthly costs rise beyond what it can pay.
A 10-foot python was rescued from a village ditch in Sharankhola, Bagerhat, and released in the eastern Sundarbans.
A German Shepherd named Teddy died after fighting off a venomous snake to protect his farmer owner as he slept while guarding a potato field in Kotchandpur.
Twenty-eight python hatchlings born by artificial incubation at Chattogram Zoo have been released at the Sitakunda Botanical Garden and Eco-park.
The forest department rescued two pythons, 10 and 17 feet long, from villages near the Sundarbans' Sarankhola range and released them into the forest.
Ten venomous snake hatchlings were recovered from a hole under a bed in Sajjak Hossain's house in Jhikargachha, Jashore.
A python about eight feet long was rescued after getting caught in a maize field net in Patgram, Lalmonirhat, and people crowded in to see it.
An 11-year-old schoolboy died after being bitten by a venomous snake while trying to catch birds from holes by a pond in Alamdanga, Chuadanga.
Snakebite is quietly killing close to 150,000 people a year in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a crisis a photographer set out to document.
