Wildlife Crime News
Selected wildlife crime reporting from external publishers, clearly attributed and linked to its original source.
India: In a major breakthrough, Special Task Force (STF) of Crime Branch arrested a smuggler with a leopard skin near Sambalpur-Sonepur border on Tuesday. ording to reports, the STF conducted raid in Sambalpur-Sonepur border area and seized the leopard skin meant for illegal selling. On the other hand, an STF…
Read updateIndia: Following the surge in the crime of poaching being committed and also a number of elephant deaths being reported from the district, the forest officials are now in action mode under the instructions of the Divisional Forest Officer (DFO). As an outcome, two hunters were arrested today and wild boar meat seized…
Read updateIndia: A reinvestigation into a poaching case has led to the imposition of Rs 1 lakh fine on 13 persons and the transfer of three forest department staff, who allegedly carried out a shoddy investigation. On September 29, a forest team led by Forest Range Officer Suresh received a tip-off that two women had…
Read updateUttarakhand forest department officials and police have arrested four people for allegedly smuggling organs of bear, musk deer and poaching Indian flapshell turtles, in two different incidents in the Kumaon region over the weekend. In Bageshwar district, police officials on Sunday arrested one person on the charges…
Read updateIndia: Foresters at the Male Mahadeshwara (MM) Hills Wildlife Sanctuary arrested two individuals for allegedly smuggling sandalwood trees in the early hours of Saturday. Around 1.30am on Saturday, Kollagal buffer zone range forest officer Praveen Kumar received a call from residents of the Kabini staff quarters, who…
Read updateIndia: Officials of the Forest department on Monday arrested three persons and detained another five for killing an eight-year-old tusker four days back in Malyagiri forest. The accused are from Taptajharan village within Pallahara forest range. The tusks of the elephant were not recovered from them. Sources said the…
Read updateIndia: Forest officials on Sunday arrested two poachers from Kansaradiha reserve forest within Bhitarkanika National Park and seized the carcass of a boar from them. Forest ranger officer Sahaji Charan Biswal said, acting on a tip-off, the officials conducted a raid at the reserve forest and arrested the two poachers…
Read updateIndia: Based on a tip-off, Sanjay Dutta, the Ranger of Salugara Range in Baikunthapur Forest Division, arrested a woman along with ivory tusks weighing 800 grams. The arrested accused has been identified as Hemanti Gurung, a resident of Malbazar. According to the Baikunthapur Forest Department, the woman was arrested…
Read updateIndia :A tiger was killed in Madhya Pradesh's Panna National Park in August. (Image for representation: PTI) The Special Task Force (Wildlife) of the Madhya Pradesh forest department on Friday arrested three people from Chhatarpur district in connection with the severing of the head and other body parts of a tiger.…
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