Wildlife Crime News
Selected wildlife crime reporting from external publishers, clearly attributed and linked to its original source.
Pakistan: The Wildlife Department on Sunday caught four poachers and recovered hunted dear and arms from their possession.Wildlife Inspector Mian Akhtar said that acting on a tip-off, a team of the department cordoned off the Baagla area of Rahim Yar Khan and conducted an operation. He said that the culprits fired…
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India: An adult male rhino was killed and its horn taken away by poachers in Kaziranga National Park in Assam, taking the number of pachyderm deaths to 16 this year, a senior Forest Department official said today. The rhino was killed near Kothalchang Forest Camp in Burapahar range of the 'World Heritage Site' around…
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India: Four tiger cubs died reportedly due to starvation in the Saoli forest range here, prompting the Maharashtra government to order a probe into the matter. "The tiger cubs died reportedly due to starvation. The forest officials are tyring to trace their mother," S S Dole, General Manager, Forest Development…
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Nepal: Police have arrested two Indian nationals with a tiger’s hide at Itahari-10 in Sunsari. Raju Bagadi, 19, and Ramdev Bagadi, 35, from Indian state of Rajasthan were caught when they were heading to India with the tiger’s hide recently. They were made public on Sunday. (Source: The Kathmandu Post)
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India: Four men allegedly involved in poaching racket were arrested by Forest Officers in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal. Acting on a tip-off, forest team headed by Range Officer Sanjay Dutta launched a search operation. According to the forest officers of Belacoba range under Jalpaiguri district, a rifle, few…
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India: In a serious development that has forest department officials very worried, there are indications that the motive behind the killing of a five-year-old leopard, whose body was found late Saturday night on the Shilonda trail in Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), could have been poaching. Vikas Gupta, chief…
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Nepal: The number of rare birds and animals, including lophophorus, is decreasing in the district due to rampant poaching and smuggling. People are found selling meat of such endangered species openly even in district headquarters Chainpur. Sources said people in Kada, Surma, Daulichaur, Rilu, Dahabagar, Lekgaun,…
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Nepal: A man was arrested with endangered red panda’s hide from Aryal Gaun, Gokarneshwor Municipality-14 on Tuesday. The arrestee, 29-year-old Samin Ramtel from Jarayotar in Melamchi-7 of Sindhupalchok district, was arrested from his rented room with the hide, police said. A team deployed from the Metropolitan Police…
Read updateNepal: A squad deployed from the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police on Sunday arrested two persons while trying to smuggle five endangered tortoises from Lagankhel of Lalitpur District. Tipped off by a special source, the police squad raided the area in Lalitpur and arrested two people, who have been…
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