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Wildlife Crime News
Selected wildlife crime reporting from external publishers, clearly attributed and linked to its original source.
Police in Aizawl arrested a man, who allegedly used to steal protected orchids from the abandoned Assam Rifles battalion headquarters complex in Aizawl, and was produced before a district court on Thursday. A 38 year old from Selesih near Aizawl was arrested on Wednesday after an FIR was lodged at the Aizawl Police…
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MUMBAI: Banned wildlife animals were seized from an international flyer at the city airport on Sunday, and the passenger who had arrived from Bangkok was arrested. Animals of rare species — the Spider Tailed Horned Viper, Asian Leaf Turtle, and Indonesian Pit Viper — have been found, said Customs officials at the…
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Bengaluru: About 3,350 red-eared slider turtles, 22 baby blue iguanas, and two African spurred tortoises were seized at the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) over the weekend. Two suspects, travelled to India from Thailand on Thai Airways (TG 325) on Saturday at 11.17 am, while the third suspect, Arunkumar…
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Imphal: Manipur police on Saturday arrested an individual for alleged involvement in trafficking peacock feathers weighing about 142 kilograms, officials reported. India designates the peacock as its national bird and protects it under Schedule I of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, which prohibits people from…
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The Forest Department has rescued an Asian black bear and two monkeys from a circus exhibit at a trade fair in Jangalia area of Comilla city. The Wildlife Crime Suppression Unit and the Comilla Social Forest Department, which arrived from Dhaka on Saturday afternoon, carried out a drive and rescued these wild…
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CHENNAI: A 50-year-old man from Tamil Nadu was detained by Malaysian authorities at the Kuala Lumpur airport for ‘attempting’ to traffic 14 species exotic to Tiruchy from Malaysia. According to official information shared by the Department of Wildlife and National Parks of Peninsular Malaysia (Jabatan PERHILITAN),…
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KATHMANDU, March 23: Police arrested a 32-year-old man on charges of possessing illegal wildlife items from Chandragiri Municipality-4, Panighat, on Saturday. According to the spokesperson for the District Police Range (DPR), Kathmandu, Superintendent of Police (SP), a resident of Shailung Rural Municipality,…
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Gilgit, Pakistan: In a successful operation, the Gilgit-Baltistan Parks and Wildlife Department recovered a snow leopard cub sold in the black market and shifted it to the Snow Leopard Rehabilitation Centre in Naltar Valley on Tuesday. The cub, estimated to be two and a half months old, was caught from its habitat in…
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Bettiah, India: The joint team of SSB and Forest Department have been successful in arresting two Nepali smugglers on Peeler number 435 of Indo Nepal Border. According to the source, the arrested Nepali smugglers are the residents of Bara and Jaitapur district of Nepal. Both smugglers have come to India with leopard…
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