Wildlife Crime News
Selected wildlife crime reporting from external publishers, clearly attributed and linked to its original source.
India: Two days after the Chhattisgarh Police arrested a man with a rare pangolin species from Gariaband district, it confirmed that the suspected smuggler was also from Odisha’s Nuapada district, as were the two other alleged poachers who were arrested with pangolins nearly a fortnight ago. The police arrested…
Read updateIndia: Chhattisgarh police on June 27 reportedly arrested a smuggler from Gariyaband district for allegedly possessing a rare species of pangolin. According to ANI, the police received a tip-off that a resident of Nuapada district in Odisha was waiting for customers ti sell the Pangolin near Kulhadighat village…
Read updateIndia: Champawat police on Friday arrested two people for allegedly smuggling leopard skin. They were travelling in a car when police intercepted the vehicle near Chalti on Champawat-Tanakpur Road. Police then searched the Haryana number plate car and found two leopard skin, said Lokeswar Singh, superintendent of…
Read updateNepal: Nepal Police arrested a kingpin of illegal wild-life trade Kunjok Tshering Tamang, 50, aka Kunjok Lama, who was in the most-wanted list of police. Tamang was also in the ‘most-wanted’ list of INTERPOL for a long time. The Central Investigation Bureau arrested Tamang, a resident of Namkha Rural Municipality,…
Read updateIndia: Seven persons were arrested for allegedly smuggling two pangolins at Biloli in Maharashtra''s Nanded district, a forest official said on Wednesday. The Wildlife crime control board (WCCF) Mumbai found an advertisement about the sale of pangolins on social media, following which the forest authorities sent a…
Read updateIndia: A person was arrested for attempting to smuggle a pangolin abroad from Jalpaiguri, West Bengal. A pangolin was rescued from a village adjoining Baikunthapur forest in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal and a poacher was arrested in this connection, forest officials said on Wednesday. Acting on a tip-off, the…
Read updateIndia: State forest department has arrested two persons for allegedly hunting a langur (Presbytis entellus) in the forest area of Junnar in Pune district. The accused have been identified as Eknath Gopal Aswale (29) and Ganpat Shimge Hilam (40), both residents of Junnar taluka. A press release issued by the forest…
Read updateIndia: Forest officials of Motu Range on Thursday busted an inter-State turtle smuggling racket and arrested four persons from MPV-83 and MPV-42 within MV-79 police limits. As many as 43 live Indian softshell turtles were recovered from their possession. Acting on a tip-off, a team of Motu Forest Range officials…
Read updateNepal: A team of Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police has arrested a man involved in poaching Namobuddha, the country’s first tiger fitted with a Global Positioning System (GPS)-enabled satellite collar. Lal Bahadur aka Raj Bahadur, a local resident of Hariharpur VDC in Surkhet district, had been on the…
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