Wildlife Crime News
Selected wildlife crime reporting from external publishers, clearly attributed and linked to its original source.
India: Forest department officials today busted a wildlife poaching gang with the arrest of two poachers along with the seizure of a deer hide and antlers. The accused poachers have been identified as Leba Murmu and Panda Marndi. Acting on reliable inputs, the forest personnel conducted a raid at a house in…
Read updateIndia: Police in Barwani district arrested Trinamool Congress (TMC) district president Durgesh Rana for killing a monkey on Wednesday. The incident took place in the afternoon at Ramkuleshwar locality when Rana shot dead a monkey using his air gun. After the incident, large number people reached the spot and started…
Read updateIndia: The Koka Wildlife Sanctuary officials on Wednesday morning caught two persons with wild boar meat while cooking. The accused have been identified as Ravi Wanve and Ganesh Wanve from Dhiwarwada village which is on the fringes of Koka, a part of the Navegaon-Nagzira Tiger Reserve (NNTR). Acting on a tip off,…
Read updateIndia: A team of Buffer division of Dudhwa Tiger Reserve (DTR) on Sunday arrested Fariyad, alias, Lamboo, with five bones of tiger which he was carrying as a sample for Nepalese buyers. According to officials, Fariyad is the kingpin of an organised gang involved in poaching and illegal trade. He was wanted by forest…
Read updateIndia: Nine people were arrested with birds protected under the wildlife protection act on Galiff Street on Sunday. At least 292 parakeets, a hill myna and an Asian koel were seized from their possession during a joint raid by the wildlife wing of the Bengal’s forest directorate and the wildlife crime control bureau.…
Read updateIndia: Had it been alive, the four-year-old tiger which was killed by poachers could have been known as ‘Bahubali 3’. They had suggested to the forest department to name it Bahubali 3. Its movement was last captured in a camera trap on December 15, 2018, in division of Kaddam range in Kawal Tiger Reserve. A joint…
Read updateIndia: Unidentified people, who were poaching in the Palani forest range, left behind their rifles and a parcel of meat when they were chased away by a group of farmers on Thursday. On being alerted, a police team rushed to the spot. Two unlicensed rifles and meat were seized by Palani rural police and a case was…
Read updateIndia: In a joint operation by the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), an Algerian man was arrested at the Delhi airport on March 27 for carrying a bag made of a monitor lizard’s skin. According to the CISF, around 3 am on March…
Read updateIndia: The Palghar police seized two snakes of endangered Sandboa (Mandul) species. The officials have arrested two persons who were in possession of the snakes and were to sell them for use in medicinal and black magic purposes. The arrested accused was identified as Sunil Shanavas (46) and Pawan Bhoya (39), both…
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