Wildlife Crime News
Selected wildlife crime reporting from external publishers, clearly attributed and linked to its original source.
India: led by Balangir DFO Sameer Satpathy on Monday night seized a leopard skin by conducting a raid on a house in Kansar village in Balangir district and arrested a person. The arrested accused was identified as Biswamitra Rana. Based on a tipoff about wildlife smuggling underway for the past few days in Kansar…
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India: Two men were arrested from Rewari on Tuesday for allegedly selling genitals of male monitor lizards and jackals over the last four months through social media, in collaboration with a few astrologers in Delhi-NCR, to people with superstitious beliefs, the police said. The monitor lizard is a protected species…
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Bangladesh: After evading arrest for nearly 20 years, a “prolific” tiger poacher, charged with killing 70 animals, was taken into custody by the Bangladesh authorities on Saturday. Habib Talukder, 50, also known as Tiger Habib, was listed as the most wanted fugitive by both India and Bangladesh’s police and forest…
Read updateIndia: After five days of search operation, forest officials in Uttarakhand have found both the tusks of a dead elephant on Tuesday. The first tusk was found from four poachers on March 17, while search for another was on. On Tuesday, four more poachers were nabbed with the second tusk from Rampur road. The tusk set…
Read updateIndia: On the basis of reliable information, Special Task Force (STF) team conducted a raid at Bonai Chhak, Barkote under Deogarh district about a deal of sale of Leopard Skin by wild life criminals, as a result of which two accused persons have been arrested. The arrested have been identified as Somanath Patra and…
Read updateIndia: The Chittoor police on Saturday seized 5.2 tonnes of red sanders logs along with a lorry and a car carrying the consignment, at Penumuru cross on the outskirts of Chittoor. The police nabbed four accused after giving them a chase. Superintendent of Police S. Senthil Kumar told presspersons that acting on a…
Read updateIndia: Crime branch arrested a man with two Australian turtles in the city on Sunday. The man was allegedly trying to sell the turtles for some witchcraft activities. The person from whom he bought the turtles is being searched by the crime branch. On the instruction from DIG Manish Kapooria, a team of crime branch…
Read updateIndia: Raikia forest outfit in Kandhamal district has caught a poacher red-handed while he was setting fire to poach wildlife inside Badamaha forest today. Forest sources said that a poacher, identified as Mitu Pradhan, was lighting fire inside Badamaha forest range under Raikia division to poach wildlife. However,…
Read updateIndia: A joint team of Uttarakhand Special Task Force (STF), wildlife crime control bureau and forest department held four members of a gang with eight kilograms of elephant tusks from Kashipur road in Rudrapur on Wednesday evening. The accused have been identified as Shamsher Singh, Surjeet Singh and Shravan Kumar,…
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