Family planning programme has not been a success in a small pocket of Kolkata but the authorities have spotted a blessing in disguise in th...

The State Zoo Authority has decided to remodel the elephants’ enclosure in the zoo by increasing its area almost by double so that its two ...

Kolkata zoo may soon have a NRI caretaker — billionaire industrialist Lord Swraj Paul.

Alipore Zoo, the country's oldest formally stated zoological park, is for the first time availing the services of a dietitian for its anima...

Critically endangered in the wild, several animals are now threatened even in zoos. Lucknow zoo has not been able to find partners for rhin...

Animals, critically endangered in the wild, are now threatened even in zoos. Lucknow zoo could not find partners for rhino, giraffe and hoo...

The Alipore zoo will announce new adoption schemes immediately after the Pujas.

For a few hours on Saturday morning, Kolkata airport will pay host to two special and unusual guests.

Infosys chairman N R Narayana Murthy is considering a proposal to adopt an animal at the Alipore Zoological Gardens.

Visitors will no longer have to peek through railings and cages to catch a glimpse of the Royal Bengal tiger at the Alipore Zoo.

The state on Friday said the full-fledged work on the 100-acre plot at Sunderbans' Jharkhali for a tiger rescue centre would start soon as ...

The Sunderbans tiger, undergoing treatment at the Alipore Zoo, was diagnosed with osteoarthritis on Thursday.

The Sunderbans tiger which was brought to Alipore zoo for treatment on Thursday is doing well now. Zoo officials said the big cat, aged abo...

One more person, suspected to be the kingpin of a racket dealing in rare animals and arrested earlier at Ajmer in Rajasthan in connection w...

Concerned over theft of eight rare species of Brazilian monkeys (marmosets) from Alipore zoo, an international animal rights organisation a...

Five persons have been arrested in connection with the killing of an adult tiger whose carcass was found floating in a river in the Sundarb...

Animal experts fear that letting the maimed and ageing big cat out in the wild might not be the right option because it will find it diffic...