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Wildlife Crime News
Selected wildlife crime reporting from external publishers, clearly attributed and linked to its original source.
Bhubaneswar, India: Tracking trade link from south and east coast of India all the way up to the Himalayas, a joint team of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) and Wildlife Justice Commission (WJC) seized wildlife products, including Himalayan musk deer pods, from a gems store in Bhubaneswar on Saturday.…
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Lahore, Pakistan: In a crackdown against wildlife crime, a man has been arrested in Lahore for his involvement in the illegal sale of snow leopard skin. The arrest, made by the Punjab Wildlife Department, is part of a broader effort to combat the trafficking of endangered animal products, ARY News reported. The…
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Sambalpur, India: The Forest officials caught three poachers red-handed while they were de-skinning and cooking leopard meet in Hiraloi village near Landakot reserve forest under Rairakhol forest division in the district on Tuesday. The forest officials also seized the leopard skin and meat besides one country-made…
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Dehradun, India: In a major crackdown on wildlife trafficking, the Uttarakhand Special Task Force (STF) has arrested three interstate wildlife traffickers and recovered two elephant tusks weighing around 14 kg in a joint operation with the Tarai Central Forest Division and Shyampur police. The operation, led by STF…
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Nagpur, India: Pune and Jalgaon customs department officials, carrying out a joint operation, arrested six persons, including two women, for trafficking a tiger skin. The accused have been booked under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972. Based on specific information, the officers of Nagpur customs, with the…
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Naharlagun, India: In a significant crackdown, the Naharlagun police have arrested four individuals on charges of attempting to peddle suspected heroin and sell critically endangered geckos. The operation, led by Naharlagun SP Mihin Gambo, was initiated after the Banderdewa police station received reliable…
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New Delhi, India: The Delhi Police officers on Wednesday arrested a 38-year-old man trying to illegally sell 100 turtle hatchlings near northeast Delhi’s Geeta Colony as they busted what they said was a racket that had been involved in selling the rare reptiles for the past six months. The 100 turtles, which were all…
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Mumbai, India: The Customs has seized seven exotic birds and three monkeys, smuggled alive from Thailand, at the Mumbai airport and detained two passengers. Of the seven birds, three were found dead while unboxing the consignment while the survivors would be sent back to the east Asian country, said a forest…
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Chennai, India: Customs officials arrested a Bengaluru resident at the Chennai International Airport on Friday night for allegedly trafficking around 400 baby iguanas from Bangkok. Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) sources said the 35-year-old suspect disembarked from a Thai Airways flight around 11.50 pm with…
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