Wildlife Crime News
Selected wildlife crime reporting from external publishers, clearly attributed and linked to its original source.
India: A 47-year-old man was caught trying to poach spotted deer and wild rabbits in the Mettur reserve forest on Friday. He was, however, let off with a fine of Rs 1 lakh. According to forest officials attached to the Mettur forest range, they found G Manickam, of Nattamangalam near Mettur, enter the reserve forest…
Read updateIndia: Security guards of the University of Hyderabad (UoH) on Wednesday chased and caught 12 persons as they were trying to flee with the carcass of a brown hare. However, three accused managed to escape. The black-napped hare or the Indian brown hare is very common on UoH campus and recently, poaching is posing a…
Read updateIndia: Forest officials on Thursday arrested six persons for killing a leopard by using a snare in Mancherial forest of Luxittepet range on January 14, after a sniffer dog identified one of them. Mancherial forest divisional officer J Venkateswara Rao told TOI, “Poachers set up a snare using a bike clutch wire to…
Read updateIndia: Four persons trying to sell a red sand boa snake have been caught in a trap and arrested by forest officials in a joint operation with Peoples For Animals (PFA), Wardha unit, near Gopuri Square on Tuesday. Ashish Goswami, A PFA activist, said they came to know that a group in the city was trying to sell a red…
Read updateIndia: Four persons were arrested in West Bengal on Tuesday in connection with illegal smuggling of 689 endangered Indian soft-shell river turtles. An official said after getting a tip off, a team of CID apprehended Lachman Kumar, 30, Raj Kumar, 25, Sushil Kumar, 20, and Raju Kumar, 30, hailing from Sultanpur…
Read updateIndia: Acting on a tip-off, a special squad of forest personnel arrested six poachers while the latter were laying livewires for poaching boars at Kutulisinga reserve forest under Dhandatopa range in Angul district. The accused were identified as Narendra Nayak (24), Ramju Nayak (49), Panchanan Nayak (42) of…
Read updateIndia: The STF of the Odisha Crime Branch on Friday arrested one more member of an international wildlife crime syndicate for his involvement in smuggling of pangolin scales. Mohammed Jamshed (42) was arrested from Khaja Street, Berhampur. On June 19 last year, a person named Samsuddin Khan was arrested from Begunia…
Read updateIndia: Four persons were arrested by sleuths of Wildlife Crime Control Bureau, Forest Department and TRAFFIC, a wildlife trade monitoring network, for allegedly transporting of a tiger’s skin in Echoda mandal on Saturday. They were produced before the media in Adilabad on Saturday. Skin of the carnivore was seized…
Read updateIndia: A pastor attached to a church in Krishnagiri of Tamil Nadu has landed behind bars in Chikkamagaluru after he was caught by the forest squad while he was trying to sell a fake tiger pelt made out of a calf's skin. Interestingly, the pastor took to deceiving people to raise funds for the church. A spotted deer…
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