Coast guard members arrested a man in possession of 20 maunds (about 740kg) of venison from a trawler in Barguna’s Patharghata upazila early yesterday.

Forest department and police, in a joint drive, have seized around five mounds of venison, skins and heads of two deer and two sacks of traps from Patharghata upazila of Barguna.

The number of deer at Rajshahi Zoo has reduced by six times over the last 15 years due to what experts say the authority's move to

Rapid Action Battalion rescue 27 deer, locally known as Chitra Horin or Spotted Deer, in Bandar upazila of Narayanganj.