Wildlife Crime News
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The death of one of the four remaining northern white rhinos has further stoked fears that the subspecies is doomed for extinction. After a series of illnesses, Nola, a 41-year-old female, had to be euthanized by San Diego Zoo staff Sunday. Vets had been treating the rhino for a bacterial infection and had recently…
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India: Officials of the Mahanadi wildlife division at Satkosia Tiger Reserve have employed people living in villages adjoining the sanctuary to tell the forest staffers about poachers, timber mafia and cow traffickers.Official sources said the names and addresses of informers will be kept confidential. They said this…
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India: The Forest Department has busted a gang involved in poaching pangolin for scales in contiguous parts of Erode and Coimbatore districts. Pangolin scales Having narrowed down on eight persons who had reportedly sourced the Indian pangolin scales from adivasis in Thondanur, Thoomanur and Ahali in…
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India: A day after two elephants died of suspected electrocution at Tithipali reserve forest in Odisha’s Sonepur district, two forest officials were today placed under suspension for dereliction of duty. The Sonepur Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) suspended a Forester and a Forest guard for dereliction of duty.…
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India: A tusker was run over by a goods train between Madarihat and Dalgaon stations of northern West Bengal's Alipurduar district in the early hours of Sunday, forest officials said. The Guwahati-bound goods train coming from New Jalpaiguri station mauled the tusker around 2.30 a.m. The elephant's carcass was…
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India: Kerala forests have become a 'graveyard' of wild elephants with as many as 270 deaths being reported this year since January, according to an animal rights campaigner, a figure contested by government which has termed the numbers as 'exaggerated'. As many as 40 per cent of the dead animals were males and 60…
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France: France has banned the import of lion heads, paws and skins as hunters’ trophies, nearly four months after the killing of Zimbabwe’s most famous lion by an American trophy hunter sparked international outrage. In a letter to the actor and animals rights activist Brigitte Bardot, France’s environment minister,…
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India: Two leopard skins was recovered from Borda Choukan under Ghatal police station area on Tuesday evening. Police received information from a source who claimed that the skins were in possession of a few poachers who had entered the area. The leopard skins were of Panthera Pardus species belonging to an adult…
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Nepal: A youth has been arrested by the Central Investigation Bureau from Srijananagar in Suryabinayak Muncipality-1 of Bhaktapur on Sunday with the possession of an alive turtle and body parts of endangered species. The arrestee has been identified as Anish Waiba (21) of Mahadevisthan VDC -3 of Sindhuli district.…
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