Wildlife Crime News
Selected wildlife crime reporting from external publishers, clearly attributed and linked to its original source.
India: Police on Saturday arrested two suspected poachers and seized a leopard skin. Officials said that the Kalsi police team, which was carrying out search operations on the outskirts of Dehradun, spotted two people in a car near Tunia Tiraha. When policemen asked the driver to stop, he tried to flee. The police…
Read updateIndia: In a major search operation undertaken jointly by forest and police, a huge haul of skins, horns, and nails of wild animals were seized at different Gothikoya habitations in the district on Tuesday. In all, 15 persons were arrested during the raids. A task force comprising 100 forest department officials and…
Read updateIndia: The Darrang police in a significant achievement in their ongoing counter-poaching operation nabbed a hardcore poacher hailing from Manipur and recovered a.303 rifle and several rounds of ammunition from his possession. Acting on a tip off, a team of police of Silbori Police Outpost under Dalgaon Police Station…
Read updateIndia: Foresters of Saoli range busted yet another case of spotted deer poaching following a tip-off given by Wildlife Protection Society of India (WPSI) on Sunday. Raids were conducted in Kondekhal and Keroda villages, both in Saoli tehsil, and an accused was arrested, while other managed to flee. VC Dhurve along…
Read updateIndia: The Sashashtra Seema Bal (SSB) apprehended a Nepalese citizen trying to sneak in a jar of crystallised snake venom from the country. The person has been arrested and later remanded to two days police custody by a Siliguri Court. The incident occurred on Thursday evening at Panitanki, the Indo-Nepal border near…
Read updateIndia: Eight people were arrested on Thursday for poaching a tiger and severing its parts for alleged sorcery at a remote village in Dindori district of Madhya Pradesh. A male tiger was killed using live electric wire pegged to a farm fence at Chauradadar village near Chhattisgarh border, said officials. The spot…
Read updateIndia: Bhadra wildlife division forest authorities arrested a person who allegedly had two civet kittens. K Raju planned to prepare civet coffee from the poop of these kittens and sell it in the market, said forest officials. He had kept the cats in a small cage. These kittens have been sent to Tyavarekoppa lion…
Read updateIndia: As many as 25 fishermen were arrested on charges of illegal fishing activities in the Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary on Monday. Three trawlers, which were used for the illegal fishing, were also seized. According to sources, a patrolling team led by the assistant conservators of forests (ACF) Shrirampada Arabind…
Read updateIndia: Pune City Police is probing a ‘pangolin smuggling racket’ after a pangolin was seized from a car on Tuesday, days after pangolin scales were seized in another operation in the city. Five suspects, who have been arrested in connection with the two incidents, also known as scaly anteater, is an insectivorous…
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