Wildlife Crime News
Selected wildlife crime reporting from external publishers, clearly attributed and linked to its original source.
Nepal: A female rhino and her calf were found dead with their horns missing inside Chitwan National Park on Tuesday evening. A team of park officials found the decomposed bodies of the mother and baby rhino in the western part of the park. “We conducted postmortem of the decayed bodies on Wednesday. Poachers had…
Read updateIndia: A special team of the Tuticorin police involved in a hunt for ganja peddlers seized four tusks from a duo on Tuesday. The accused have been identified as G Rajavel, 33, of George Road and M Muniyasami, 43, of Ganesan Colony, Tuticorin. Superintendent of police S Jayakumar said a special team on the lookout for…
Read updateBangladesh: Wildlife Crime Control Unit (WCCU) rescued a male Pangolin weighing nine kgs and approximately 12 years old from a house of Md. Shahjahan of Dakurail, Kaliakair, Gazipur. Talking to the local people, it was known that the Pangolin has been coming and going in that area for about two months. Some curious…
Read updateIndia: The Customs Air Intelligence unit officials at Chennai Airport seized 23.5kg of processed shark fins that were being smuggled to Dubai by two passengers. Senior officials said that this was the first seizure of wildlife products since the COVID-19 induced lockdown and that the last seizure of shark fins were…
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Bangladesh: One accused was arrested along with a gecko was from the Signboard area by Siddhirganj police station of Narayanganj district. The gecko was about 15 inches long and weight 269 grams. It is learned that the gecko was being collected from Bandarban and taken to a vendor in Munshiganj. The rescued Gecko was…
Read updateIndia: In a suspected case of poaching, police in Assam's hilly Karbi Anglong district on Wednesday seized 16 teeth of tigers and arrested four persons. Assam police headquarters in Guwahati said the four were arrested during an operation launched by police based on intelligence inputs about the movement of some…
Read updateBangladesh: A 4 feet 6 inches long and 15 kg Gharial caught by Md. Badsha Miya, a fisherman, in his net while fishing in the Padma river near the Sahapara village of Habaspur union in Pangsha upazila of Rajbari district. He wanted to sell it in the local market. As soon as the matter came to the notice of Wildlife…
Read updateIndia: Three forest staffers of Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve have been arrested for their involvement in rhino horn smuggling. They were produced before a local court that sent them for to judicial custody for 14 days on Thursday. The arrested persons were identified as Dilip Karmakar, Robin Bauri and…
Read updateIndia: The pristine forests of NR Pura in Chikkamagaluru district being a ‘buffer’ for Bhadra Tiger Reserve, witnesses tiger (and other wildlife) spillovers frequently as also conflicts. On Sunday, a tiger cub was killed in NR Pura forests, and its body parts were seized in Mandya when offenders were trying to sell…
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