Wildlife Crime News
Selected wildlife crime reporting from external publishers, clearly attributed and linked to its original source.
India: Forest officials launched a probe after the carcass of a tiger was found in Pazhamputhoor village, falling under the Kodaikanal forest division in Tamil Nadu, on Wednesday night.Following this, a team of officials led by the district forest officer D Venkatesh along with two veterinarians rushed to the spot on…
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India: Poachers continued its killing spray in Assam’s Kaziranga National Park (KNP) killing another one horned rhinoceros in the world heritage site on Tuesday, officials said. According to the reports, poachers killed the rhino inside the national park near Daphlang forest camp under Bagori range office. Poachers…
Read updateNepal: Nepal Police have arrested eight men, including six Indian citizens, on the charge of hunting and smuggling skins and other body parts of Royal Bengal Tiger from far-western region of Nepal.Preliminary investigations of the police have revealed that the arrested were active in tiger hunting since long. The…
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Pakistan: I often think that a country where there is no sanctity of human life and no respect for humanity, who will initiate efforts to stop the killing of wildlife. There is none to admonish the sinner, there is none to punish the killer in this country. The way various species of animals are being killed in…
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India: The Sariska reserve authorities on Saturday arrested two women on charges of poaching birds and animals in the protected forest area. The women were produced in a court that sent them to judicial custody.Police officials said that the women used guns to kill the birds and animals and then sold the meat to…
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Nepal: This is the third year that no case of rhino poaching has been reported in the country. Prior to this, the years 2011 and 2013 were marked as the years without the cases of rhino poaching. Minister for Forest and Soil Conservation Agni Prasad Sapkota was the chief guest of the Zero Rhino Poaching Year-2015…
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India: In a major haul, forest officials on Tuesday seized six leopard skins and several nails of the animals in Nabarangpur district and arrested five persons in this connection."Four of the skins are of adult leopards. The remaining two belong to leopards aged 18-24 months. The value of leopard skin in…
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India: The pangolin is gifted with a unique defence mechanism of rolling into a ball that protects it against predators, but is helpless against better equipped poachers.The toothless mammal, also called scaly ant-eater, was the most traded species in the country last year.A recent study by TRAFFIC -India, a wildlife…
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Nepal: Illegal poaching and smuggling of rare species have massively gone up in Bajura district of late. According to sources, poaching and smuggling of endangered species are on the rise in Martadi, Dahakot, Manakot, Toli, Kailashmandu, Kanda, Rugin, Chhatara and Dogadi among other dozens of VDCs in the district.…
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