Wildlife Crime News
Selected wildlife crime reporting from external publishers, clearly attributed and linked to its original source.
India: A poacher was arrested for killing wild animals in the forests of Sathanuru in Kanakapura taluk in Ramanagar district on Tuesday. Sathanuru range forest officers arrested Shivappa (30), a resident of Makkalanda village, and seized carcasses of a Small Indian Civet and two Black Naped Hare. Shivappa along with…
Read updateIndia: The air intelligence unit (AIU) of Mumbai customs seized 100kg of peacock feathers from four individuals at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport on Monday. The persons carrying the feathers were travelling to Dubai. Maharashtra forest department confirmed this as the largest seizure of peacock…
Read updateIndia: Forest Department Officials have arrested two persons who were allegedly transporting wild boar meat after poaching the wild boar in forest. The accused are Ashwath and Nishanth of Thaltare Shettalli. The duo are said to have hunted a wild boar at Hediyala in H.D. Kote taluk and were transporting about 40 kg…
Read updateIndia: Two persons were arrested and a bone of a rhinoceros was recovered from their possession in Jalpaiguri district on Monday. Based on a tip-off, the Special Task Force of the Forest department led by Sanjay Dutta, range officer, Belakoba Range, conducted a raid at a location in Fatapukur on National Highway 31 C…
Read updateIndia: Forest officials arrested three men for straying into the reserved forest area near Varushanadu in Theni district on Friday. They also seized a country-made rifle, torch lights and sharp weapons from them. The accused have been identified as Thirupathi from Tirupur district, Pandiarajan from Aranmanaipudur and…
Read updateIndia: A man was arrested in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district after a leopard hide and bones were recovered from him, police said Thursday. The accused, identified as Hiralal, was arrested Wednesday, a district police spokesman said. He has been booked under various sections of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, the…
Read updateIndia: Three men from Punjab have been arrested for allegedly trying to sell more than 150 Alexandrine Parakeets to sellers in Jama Masjid, Shastri Park and other areas in the capital. Alexandrine Parakeets are in high demand as they have the ability to mimic human speech. According to the International Union for…
Read updateIndia: An inter-state gang of poachers was nabbed by the Special Operations Team of Malkajgiri, Rachakonda police and one leapord skin along with four claws were seized from them. The team acting on a tip off apprehended four persons who along with others were into poaching of the big cats by monitoring their tracks…
Read updateIndia: The forest department has arrested a person in connection with the mysterious death of tiger. Forest officials claim that the nabbed person Ram Singh Vishwakarma has confessed that he has severed tail of tiger in his possession. The same has been seized by the officials. The discovery of a tiger’s body, few…
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