Wildlife Crime News
Selected wildlife crime reporting from external publishers, clearly attributed and linked to its original source.
India: The Mumbai unit of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) recovered many exotic species, including pythons, lizards, and turtles, in the city on Thursday. The DRI recovered 665 animals from Air Cargo Complex in Mumbai. This is one of the biggest seizures of rare and exotic wildlife species in Mumbai. An…
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Bangladesh: A few years ago, a private-run television channel featured on Rabiul Islam Ranju's snake farm. The farm, located at Kalukhali upazila under Rajbari district, hatched several snake species for exporting snake venom. However, on 2 January, a team of Forest Department's Wildlife Crime Control Unit (WCCU)…
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India: A large number of labourers working in under-construction solar and wind mills in many areas of Jaisalmer are poaching chinkaras and rare birds. Following the incidents, villagers have become alert. People late on Saturday night caught two poachers from Malda town in West Bengal for poaching rare pigeons and…
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India: In a joint operation by Maharashtra Forest Department’s Kalyan Range Forest Office (RFO) team and the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), Western Region, 250 black coral and 50 Hatha Jodi (penises of monitor lizard) were seized from a commercial shop at a residential building in Kalyan on Saturday. The…
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India: Five persons have been arrested by the local crime branch of Sindhudurg police, while attempting to sell leopard skin. On receiving information, police laid a trap and arrested Venkatesh Raul, Nitin Suryawanshi, Kiran Sawant, Samir Gurav, and Dinesh Gurav. The accused were handed over to the forest department…
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India: Police arrested three smugglers and seized red sanders logs from their possession Saturday. Task force SP M Sundara Rao said three teams carried out combing operations inside the Seshachalam forests at three different locations near Tirupati and made the arrests. The arrested smugglers were identified as…
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India: The forest department, Pune, and the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) arrested eight people, including an ayurveda practitioner and an academician, on the charge of possessing and dealing in the skins of two leopards and a tiger in the Warje area on Wednesday. A case has been registered against the…
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India: Three people were arrested on Thursday for killing Bandhavgarh’s most popular tigress, Amanalabali, and dumping her body in a well, a forest department official said. The tigress was 14 years old. A team of forest officials arrested Shivlal Baiga, Babulal Baiga and Kailash Baiga, all residents of Kanchhoha…
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India: A combined team of Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) and Chhattisgarh Forest Department nabbed a Sub-Inspector of CISF and Security In-charge of Raipur Airport and seized scales of pangolin in Raipur from him, on Wednesday. The accused has been identified as Jitendra Koche, son of Naresh Koche, a resident…
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