Earlier reports suggested organised gangs seek to sell gyrfalcons on the black market for as much as $50,000 each.
Cruel joke can turn deadly for predator now too visible to both prey and poachers.
A man is facing prosecution after posting gruesome images posing with his trophy animals on the Internet.
The cubs of the world’s largest big cat seen in Russian Far East are too young to survive on their own.
Respected wildlife expert gunned down in Omsk region tragedy.
She and he were cruelly orphaned by poachers, and he was also shot and wounded but is now cured: how will they cope together roaming the wild?
Frightened and hungry after poachers killed his mother, wild animal starts new life in Barnaul zoo.
A chase of the Sierra Leone registered Sapsan came after the vessel was detected in Russian waters by border patrol boat Argal.
Big cat seen by Baywatch star Pamela Anderson will hunt again after being snared by poachers' trap.
Often bears encroaching towns are shot, but in Dalnegorsk they spared the life of 'too friendly' wild animal.