Wildlife Crime News
Selected wildlife crime reporting from external publishers, clearly attributed and linked to its original source.
India: The Union Cabinet gave its nod for India adopting the statute of the South Asia Wildlife Enforcement Network (SAWEN) which will help in checking cross border wildlife crimes.The approval by the Cabinet at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi allows the country to become a formal member of SAWEN in…
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Nepal: Regional Investigation Team (RIT) deployed by Far-Western Regional Police Office, Doti has recovered leopard skins and bones from Jhalari Peepaladi municipality of Kanchanpur.The RIT led by Sub-Inspector Keshav Joshi arrested 34-year-old Padam Thagunna with 15 kg of leopard bones and three pieces of leopard…
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Nepal: Security personnel have detained two fugitives convicted on poaching charges. Jhakku Prasad Thapamagar and Chhabilal Tharu of Mohammadpur-6 in Bardiya were arrested on Friday. A total of 126 suspected poachers and smugglers have been arrested in the past four months since the Bardiya National Park launched a…
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Nepal: Police arrested a man in possession of pangolin scales from Chainpur-18 in the district on Saturday. Forty-nine-year-old Ridardandi Bhote, a resident of Chepuwa-6, was held with 1.6 kilograms of pangolin scales, said police. He was detained during a security check on a Khandbari-bound bus. (Source: Ekantipur)
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Nepal: Police have busted four persons involved in smuggling of leopard skin in Salyan district. The Salyan District Police Office has confirmed that the smugglers were nabbed Saturday while they were negotiating the price of leopard skin, pricing it around Rs 1.5 million. The Regional Investigation Bureau of Nepal…
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India: The recent incidents of carcasses of dolphins getting washed up on shore in different places in the state, as also the turtles dying after getting injured by the propellers of the boats, are a matter of concern because it points to the dangers that marine life faces today.In the last few of weeks, at least six…
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India: Forest officials of the Belakoba range under West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district arrested four persons for smuggling skin and bones of Royal Bengal Tigers. They seized 11 feet length tiger skin and 88 pieces of tiger bones from New Alipurduar district. Forest ranger of Belakoba forest, Sanjay Dutta, said that…
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India: Two Nepalese nationals were arrested after a leopard skin was recovered from them in Rupiaydeeh area here, an SSB official said today.Acting on a tip off, a joint team of SSB and forest department officials arrested Nirmal Bekay and Bhakt Bekay from no man's land yesterday, SSB deputy commandant V C Joshi said…
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Nepal: Police on Wednesday arrested one person on the charge of smuggling of leopard hide. He is Krishna Bahadur Rai aka Dhurab from Udaypur and currently living at Harisidhhi, Lalitpur and was made public Thursday by the Metropolitan Police Crime Division through a press conference. According to Senior…
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