Wildlife Crime News
Selected wildlife crime reporting from external publishers, clearly attributed and linked to its original source.
India: A pair of elephant tusks weighing 15 kg was seized from suspected smugglers at Ennore on Tuesday. Four suspects have been detained in the connection. A police team intercepted a bike-borne duo on suspicion during night patrol around Poonamallee on Monday. On questioning, police found Vasanth, 28, of Porur, and…
Read updateIndia: One person was arrested from Diamond Harbour town on Monday night during a joint raid by the state forest department and Wildlife Crime Control Bureau for selling paint brushes made of mongoose hair. All six species of mongoose are protected under Schedule II part II of Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972. The fur…
Read updateIndia: The Mumbra police arrested three people for possessing 10 sambar deer antlers and 53-inch skin of a spotted deer. Mohammed Taufik Mohammed Israel Saudagar, 27, Shaikh Taufik Shaikh Nasir, 22 and Rizwan Ahmed Rajik Ahmed, 23, had brought the skin and horn from Amravati. D Swami, deputy commissioner of police,…
Read updateIndia: Deer horns and skin were seized and three people arrested, the police said on Friday. The seizure was made on November 28 night, and the accused hail from Amravati in the Vidarbha region, D.S. Swami, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone I), said at a press conference. He said acting on a tip-off that some…
Read updateIndia: Wildlife officials on Sunday arrested six men who were poaching birds at a farm in Jawahar Nagar in Navalur. The officials seized 28 dead birds from the poachers who the officials said were gypsies. The kill included 18 night herons, three cattle egrets, two water cocks, a common coot, two black-winged stilts…
Read updateIndia: AP Red Sanders Anti Smuggling Task Force sleuths arrested two smugglers and seized 14 red sanders logs along with a vehicle and tools at Kothapeta near Naravari Palle village, during the wee hours of Thursday morning. According to the task force RSI M. Vasu, the arrested were identified as Abu Baker, hailing…
Read updateIndia: The Local Crime Branch, Raigad, has arrested four people for allegedly smuggling 850 ml snake venom from Gujarat to Maharashtra. Two of the men, Rajaram Ramsomaru Jaiswar (46), who worked with a Customs clearing agent in Mumbai, and Udaynath Ramjeet Jaiswar (37), who did temporary jobs, were arrested from…
Read updateIndia: The crime branch of Jaipur police claimed a major success after it arrested three persons and seized elephant tusks . The crime branch led by ACP Mahavir Singh, arrested Kamlesh Sharma (35), a resident of Bassi in Jaipur; Amit Sharma (23), a resident of Jamwaramgarh; and Vishnu Prasad Sharma (23), a resident…
Read updateIndia: A decomposed carcass of a leopard was recovered from a water body near Bampewada village under Lakhni forest range in Bhandara district, forest officials said Tuesday. The carcass was found near Nawegaon Nagzira Tiger Reserve (NNTR) on Sakoli-Tirora Road, they said. A local villager was detained in this…
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