Wildlife Crime News
Selected wildlife crime reporting from external publishers, clearly attributed and linked to its original source.
India: Four juveniles were held and forwarded to court on charges of wildlife poaching, informed Rairakhol DFO Pradeep Kumar Sahu. Sahu said that the four minors were caught on Sunday by the forest officials while laying power lines for wildlife hunting. They were tested for COVID-19 and later were forwarded to…
Read updateIndia: The accused has been identified as S. Nandagopal, sources said. Acting on a tip off, a team led by P. Arumugam, Gudalur Range Officer conducted searches in the house of accused, which is located on Palanivel Pillai Street, and seized trophies, sources said. The team found a small piece of tusk, two nails of…
Read updateIndia: A man was arrested in Berhampur Monday evening for allegedly trying to sell a leopard skin. Acting on a tip-off the forest department officials with local police apprehended the person, Berhampur DFO Amlan Nayak said. The man, identified as P. Sushant Reddy, was arrested after the leopard skin was found on his…
Read updateIndia: Police have arrested a smuggler named Sandeep from Kasta town under Mitauli police station area in L Khiampur Khiri district. Police have recovered two double-handed snakes of rare species from his possession. He was going to deliver these. But the police caught him red-handed. The police had received secret…
Read updateIndia: The forest officials have arrested two poachers from Badamala range forest in Sambalpur district during a raid in here. Acting on reliable inputs about the presence of the accused persons in the forest, the officials reached the forest and conducted a raid. During the raid, the officials apprehended the…
Read updateIndia: The forest personnel of Nameri National Park and Tiger Reserve nabbed a poacher who tried to enter the park on Saturday evening. The poacher has been identified as Deji Khaklari. “As a poachers’ group tried to enter the Nameri National Park and Tiger Reserve, the alert forest team of the park, under the…
Read updateIndia: Odisha wildlife department officials have seized three leopard skins and arrested four young men in Nabarangpur district for allegedly being involved in smuggling. Chief wildlife warden HS Upadhyay said a team of wildlife officials of Nabarangpur district intercepted two vehicles at different places on…
Read updateIndia: In another man-animal conflict, a man and his wife were injured in wild boar attack at Barakandha village under Mahakalapada Forest Range in Kendrapada district on Wednesday. The locals later nabbed the boar and lynched it to death.Following the incident, forest personnel seized 30 kg boar meat which was set…
Read updateIndia: Periya Range forest officials have arrested four persons from Mananthavady for keeping in their possession elephant tusks weighing 20kg and trying to sell them. The arrested are Vinod,30, Raghavan,39, Raju,34, and Gopi, 38 -- all from Kattiyeri Colony. The forest officials had found a one-and-a-half-year-old…
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