Frightened and hungry after poachers killed his mother, wild animal starts new life in Barnaul zoo.
A man is facing prosecution after posting gruesome images posing with his trophy animals on the Internet.
Ecologists from several countries lost battle to poachers who caught an endangered dark-feathered bird.
With as few as 70 left in the wild, evidence of poachers targeting species is likely to be a concern.
Skin and skull of rare animal was hidden in the suspect's car.
Move defies hunters who want to keep shooting the black bear.
In separate case, members of a 'bird mafia' illegally snaring and exporting Red Book hawks and falcons to Middle East were detained in Buryatia.
Often bears encroaching towns are shot, but in Dalnegorsk they spared the life of 'too friendly' wild animal.
The rare Amur tigress was saved from starvation more than a year ago after she was orphaned when poachers killed her mother.
Amazing new pictures show a endangered Amur leopard with a cub.