Wildlife Crime News
Selected wildlife crime reporting from external publishers, clearly attributed and linked to its original source.
India: The Banaswadi police arrested a man for trying to smuggle a leopard skin in the city and seized the skin from him on Sunday. The accused, Kumar, is a resident of H.D. Kote. Based on a tipoff, a police special team, headed by ACP Mahadevappa, was formed. They laid a trap in Banaswadi police limits on Saturday…
Read updateIndia: In what could be called a face-saving act, seven out of eleven red sanders smugglers who managed to abscond from the forest department office in Rajampet on Saturday morning, were nabbed by the cops near Railway Kodur and Renigunta on Sunday. Eleven red sanders smugglers were nabbed by the forest department…
Read updateIndia: A top official of state forest department said that, the arrested poacher was involved in the rhino poaching incident took place at Kawoimari area under Bagori range in Kaziranga national park on June 11 this year. According to the reports, based on intelligence input, police and forest department officials…
Read updateIndia: Two Chinese women were arrested at IGI airport for trying to smuggle out Shahtoosh . Customs officials said their action was not only a violation under the Customs Act, but also under the Wildlife Protection Act and Foreign Trade Act, as the shawls were made from the hair of the Tibetan antelope or 'Chiru',…
Read updateIndia: The Gangnehar police team nabbed three poachers and rescued two tortoises from them on late Monday night. A case has been registered under Section 51 of the Wildlife Protection Act 1972. The car carrying the tortoises was also impounded by the cops. The investigation is on, said police. Speaking to The…
Read updateIndia: Customs officials at Chennai airport seized 2,300 baby turtles from the baggage of a passenger who arrived from Bangkok on a Thai Airways flight on Thursday. The live turtles were found in six cartons. Wild life Crime Control Bureau certified the turtles as red-eared sliders, an exotic species of foreign…
Read updateIndia: Forest personnel have seized about 100 kg of processed sea cucumber, protected under Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act, after arresting three persons in Kilakarai on Friday. Acting on intelligence reports, a team of forest personnel, led by Sikkandar Basha, Forest Range Officer, Kilakarai range, raided…
Read updateIndia: The Thane Crime Branch Friday arrested three persons and seized an adult Indian pangolin, an endangered mammal, a police official said. Acting on a tip-off, sleuths of the Crime Branch Unit 1 kept a vigil at Saket Bridge in the Rabodi area since Thursday night and nabbed the trio when they arrived to sell the…
Read updateIndia:Three persons, two natives of Pilibhit district and one from Uttarakhand, were arrested on Tuesday midnight by a team led by DFO, North Kheri, Anil Patel with more than 2,000 parakeets. Forest officials said the trio was involved in interstate poaching and smuggling of birds, especially of different types of…
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