Wildlife Crime News
Selected wildlife crime reporting from external publishers, clearly attributed and linked to its original source.
Nepal: Bajura Police on Thursday arrested seven persons in possession of firearms and rare animal hides from Budhinanda Municipality of the district, following an increased vigilance to control poaching activities during winter. Bajura District Police Office (DPO) has identified the arrestees as Aaita Bohara (59),…
Read updateIndia: Five people were arrested and three others including a cop and a deputy block development officer booked by Pudukottai town police on Friday in connection with the poaching of a spotted deer in Thuvarankurichi forest range in Trichy district. Three licensed weapons used for poaching the wild animal have also…
Read updateIndia: The city crime branch unit 7 busted a red sanders smuggling racket with the seizure of around 1,500kg of the substance at Mandala, Mankhurd. Police received a tip-off that the red sanders were being transported in a truck to JNPT for export. They laid a trap and arrested the truck driver and cleaner of the…
Read updateNepal: Police said six persons were arrested in possession of leopard skin from Chalise of Gajuri Rural Municipality-2 of Dhading district, on Saturday. Acting on a tip-off, a police team deployed from Area Police Office, Gajuri, and DPO, Dhading, arrested six persons in possession of leopard skin and made them…
Read updateSri Lanka: Sri Lanka Navy has arrested 10 Indian fishermen from Tamil Nadu for allegedly breaching the International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL) and illegally fishing in Sri Lankan waters.Naval personnel attached to the Northern Naval Command, during a patrol conducted in the north western sea area of the Delft…
Read updateBangladesh: Law enforcers have seized a large haul of wild animal hides, including leopard, deer and snake, from a shop in the capital's Paribagh. The Forest Department's Wildlife Crime Control Unit (WCCU) conducted the raid on the store -- Craft Corner -- at the DIT Super Market on Monday. A Rapid Action Battalion…
Read updateIndia: Over 29,000 paintbrushes made of mongoose fur were seized in the state on Thursday under Operation Clean Art carried out by the forest department along with the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) and volunteers of a city-based NGO. The authorities had got information that paintbrushes made from the fur of…
Read updateNepal: Two people were arrested with a leopard hide from Musikot Municipality-7 in Rukum West. The arrestees have been identified as Chhaya BK also known as Arjun (21) of Puthauttarganga Rural municipality-14 in Rukum East and Ganesh Nepali (19), of Ghorahi Sub Metropolitan City-12 in Dang, informed Deputy…
Read updateIndia: The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) on Saturday held two people at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport for smuggling 43 kilogram of red sandalwood. The two passengers, Vishal and Ankit Kumar, were supposed to travel in a Hong Kong bound Air India flight. They were held after the CISF…
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