Wildlife Crime News
Selected wildlife crime reporting from external publishers, clearly attributed and linked to its original source.
India: The district forest department on Friday confiscated several species of wildlife animals, whose sale is prohibited under the Wildlife Protection Act, from a pet shop in Noida’s Sector 93. The department has registered a police complaint and the seller, 45-year-old Prashant Kumar, was arrested. Among the…
Read updateIndia: Forest department officials today arrested a poacher and seized leopard skin from his possession near Bisoi under Rairangpur forest division limits, Forest department sources said. The poacher has been identified as Laxman Nayak, a resident of Khajurikatas village under Bisoi police station limits, the sources…
Read updateIndia: Kenichira police in Wayanad have arrested three people for allegedly stealing camera traps installed in vested forests under Chethalath range for tiger monitoring. The camera traps had caught the trio poaching a deer. The accused have been identified as Sumesh (41), hailing from Padichira; Rajesh (32), hailing…
Read updateIndia: A hog deer poacher was apprehended by a forest team from Bagoribari village in Darrang district of Assam on Tuesday morning, official sources informed. Three other poachers however managed to give the team, comprising employees of the Katasali and Chandanpur camps of the national park, a slip. Based on a…
Read updateIndia: An organised Pangolin Wildlife poaching and smuggling racket was busted by the Telangana Forest officials in the Kawal Tiger Reserve forest of Adilabad. According to the Adilabad Circle CFO C P Vinod Kumar, on the tip-off, a team headed by DFO Mancherial and Asifabad has investigated the racket and arrested 10…
Read updateIndia: The officials of Anandapur wildlife division in Keonjhar district recovered elephant tusks weighing 19 kg. The seizure was made late last night, official sources said on Tuesday. The tusks were seized from Bayapita village under Harichandanpur police limits in the district. Acting on a tip-off, the forest…
Read updateIndia: Amost-wanted rhino poacher was arrested on Tuesday in Assam's Biswanath district. Arms were recovered from the possession of the accused. Based on intelligence input, police and the Crime Investigation Range staff of Wildlife division of Biswanath jointly launched an operation at Rangsali Sonari village area…
Read updateIndia: Chirang police on Sunday arrested one elephant tusk smuggler identified as Alen Basumatary and recovered two tusks from his possession. The operation was led by Chirang Additional Superintendent of Police (HQ) Prakash Medhi and his team in association with Chirang forest department. Interacting with Northeast…
Read updateIndia: Four people have been arrested in Chamarajanagar district for allegedly possessing a huge cache of prohibited wildlife items including pelts, bones and claws. Acting on tip-off that some people were trying to sell wildlife products, forest officials carried out an operation on Thursday night and arrested four…
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