Wildlife Crime News
Selected wildlife crime reporting from external publishers, clearly attributed and linked to its original source.
India: A team from the Chitwan National Park (CNP) has arrested a fugitive who was convicted of poaching an endangered one-horned rhino from the CNP four years ago. The team apprehended Ishwori Prasad Mahato of Kawasoti Municipality-10 in Nawalparasi district on Thursday. Assistant Conservation Officer Nurendra Aryal…
Read updateNepal: Police in Dolakha have arrested two people in possession of pangolin scales. Arjun Devkota, 23, and Saurabh Gole, 19, of Kamalamai Municipality-3 in Sindhuli were arrested along with pangolin scales weighing 2.9 kilograms. Pangolin is a protected wildlife species. The two were arrested from Bhimeshwor…
Read updateIndia: Two suspected rhino poachers were killed in an encounter with Special Task Force of police in central Assam's Morigaon district early on Tuesday, police said. A STF team went to Sitalmari char near Orang Wildlife Sanctuary in adjacent Darrang district based on specific input of rhino poachers taking shelter…
Read updateIndia: Forest officials on Monday nabbed three poachers in the reserve forest of Shiroda seizing from them 7 kg of civet cat meat, a locally-made pistol, bullets and copper. The poachers have been identified as Ulhas Velip (38), Chandrakant Velip (38) – both residents of Padi Canacona – and Gurudas Gaonkar (51) of…
Read updateIndia: Five men were arrested for hunting a deer for meat at Ponmalai area in Perianaickenpalayam forest range on Sunday. A team of forest department field staff and anti-poaching watchers had apprehended J Arul, J Durai, J Krishnan, J Velusamy and G Suren, all hailing from Gandhi Nagar at Thimmamapalayampudur near…
Read updateIndia: The Amravati sessions court has acquitted two tiger poachers — Bhajan Hotel Dhurve and Shiri alias Prakash Bisan Chavan (35) — in Dhakna tiger poaching case inside Melghat Tiger Reserve (MTR). Both the accused, belonging to Baheliya community from Katni in Madhya Pradesh, were convicted in January 2016 under…
Read updateIndia: Six people were arrested with carcasses of five civet cats — protected under Schedule II of the Wildlife Protection Act — at Chandapara station near Bongaon on Saturday evening. Local DFO Niranjita Mitra confirmed the development and said that the six accused, who are being questioned now, would be produced in…
Read updateIndia: A 35-year-old man was arrested with two leopard skins in Himachal Pradesh's Shimla district, police said Tuesday. Santokh Singh, a resident of Pumlaai in Kumarsain, was arrested Monday night from Rampur tehsil in the district, Superintendent of Police (SP), Shimla, Omapati Jamwal said. Two leopard skins were…
Read updateIndia:The forest department on Monday arrested one person involved in alleged smuggling and poaching of wildlife animals. The department has seized wildlife articles of four monitor lizards, one porcupine quill, two owlet nails and a sea fan. The teams had earlier arrested two persons in this connection and were…
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