Wildlife Crime News
Selected wildlife crime reporting from external publishers, clearly attributed and linked to its original source.
Nepal: Police arrested two men in possession of four hides and bones of leopard from near Aayat bazaar in Amargadhi-3 on Thursday morning. Police said that a joint team from Regional Police Investigation Bureau and the District Police Office (DPO), acting on a tip off, arrested Ram Bahadur Thapa Magar of and Kam…
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Nepal: Police recently arrested a man in possession of live protected animals and birds. The suspect has been identified as Mohammad Usman (35) of Patna, India and currently residing at Samakhusi, KMC-29. Acting on a tip-off that Usman was involved in illegal trading of tortoises and various species of birds, a…
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India:Sullurpet police arrested a red sanders smuggler and seized Rs 44 lakh worth logs, vehicles from his possession. District Superintendent of Police Vishal Gunni while interacting with media persons on Wednesday said that they deployed teams for nabbing another person who was involved in the crime. According to…
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Nepal: Chitwan National Park today marked zero poaching year at a programme to celebrate the fact that the park has not witnessed a single case of wildlife poaching for two consecutive years. A joint conservation operation section was established to make wildlife conservation effective at a programme organised to…
Read updateIndia: The mobile squad of the Forest Department, on Friday, arrested a woman from Hosodi in Shivamogga, and recovered 22 tiger nails from her. The arrested has been identified as Baroli (45). The police took the accused into custody while she was looking for customers to purchase the nails she had been carrying…
Read updateIndia: About 93 kgs of pangolin scales were seized from a person in Champhai town along Mizoram-Myanmar border, police said today. The scales were recovered from one C Thanga (38) yesterday and he was arrested. The seized pangolin scales are worth around Rs 20 lakh in the local market and were suspected to be…
Read updateIndia: A Chinkara was killed by poachers on the Ramgarh-Jaisalmer road, about 50 off Jaisalmer on Tuesday night when the animal was drinking water from a leak in the water supply line. Later, poachers have peeled its skin. By the time other vehicles reached the spot, the poachers had escaped. The wildlife department…
Read updateIndia: Two men were arrested by forest officials in Tiruppattur in Vellore district on Wednesday for selling musk deer pods. Vellore district forest officer S Kalanithi told TOI that after receiving specific information about the sale, a field operative of TRAFFIC, a wildlife crime prevention organisation, tracked…
Read updateIndia: In combing operations to apprehend red sanders smugglers, police and forest officials seized 18 logs of red sanders near Seshachalam forest area on Tuesday. Eight labourers who were engaged by smugglers to transport the logs were arrested. While some of the labourers reportedly ran away, among those who were…
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