Wildlife Crime News
Selected wildlife crime reporting from external publishers, clearly attributed and linked to its original source.
India: A man was arrested by the forest department on Wednesday night for allegedly attempting to poach wild animals in the Sanjay Gandhi National Park. A Tulsi range official got a tip-off that armed poachers were in the forest. “We made two teams of five each and reached the spot between Dahisar and Tulsi lake.…
Read updateIndia: Wildlife poachers seem to be taking advantage of the ongoing lockdown. Six of them were arrested for poaching a civet cat and a monitor lizard from Aamghat forest area under Butibori forest range. The accused have been identified as Akash Jagtap, Ramnath Sawant, Sundarlal Shinde, Anil Shinde, Tanaji Jagtap amd…
Read updateNepal: Police arrested two smugglers with two muskets from Banke National Park area on Tuesday night. The arrested have been identified as Kul Bahadur Oli and Himlal Khatri of Dangisaran Rural Municipality, Dang. The park’s Chief Conservation Officer Pramod Bhattarai said a team of Nepali Army took the smugglers…
Read updateNepal: Police on Monday arrested four persons reportedly involved in trafficking of red panda hides from Budhanilkantha Municipality-12 in Kathmandu district. The arrested have been identified as Surya Bahadur Bhujel (39) of Balajor in Tinpatan Rural Municipality-6, Sindhuli district; Suk Bahadur Lama (40) of Jhapre…
Read updateIndia: A rhino poacher was arrested near Bagori range of Kaziranga National Park in Nagaon district of Assam on Saturday morning. The poacher, identified as Pradip Mura, was apprehended from Harmati, a fringe area of the park. "The poacher was keeping arms and ammunitions ready for poaching. But he was waiting for a…
Read updateIndia: Dehradun police on Wednesday arrested two members of inter-state wildlife poaching and smuggling gang and seized one leopard skin from them. Acting on a tip-off provided by wildlife crime control bureau, a team of Dehradun police nabbed the smugglers, identified as Dharam Singh and Chandar Singh Chauhan, both…
Read updateIndia: Forest department officials arrested three persons and recovered a rhino horn and ivory from their possession. The operation was carried out on Friday night and the arrests were made from Malbazar in Jalpaiguri. Of the arrested persons, one is a Bhutanese national and the other two are from Jaigaon and…
Read updateNepal: Police on Monday arrested a man in possession of tiger hide in Shankhamul of Lalitpur Metropolitan City-9 in Lalitpur district. The arrested has been identified as Mahesh Adhikari (26) of Dudhauli in Sindhuli district. A team of security personnel deployed from Metropolitan Police Sector, Pulchowk raided the…
Read updateIndia: The Puttur forest department special mobile squad have arrested 6 poachers, who killed a jumbo for ivory at an estate in Sakleshpura. The arrested have been identified as Gangaprasad, 32; Unil Gaur, 19; Silass Barl, 31, Birkumar, 25; Babulal Singh, 38 and Sancharorng, 45. According to forest officials, all six…
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