Wildlife Crime News
Selected wildlife crime reporting from external publishers, clearly attributed and linked to its original source.
India: The Marine police of the Coastal Security Group (CSG) have seized about 150 kg of sea cucumber, an endangered species, protected under Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act. A Marine police team, which was on regular patrolling in the Mandapam area, was checking the boats on Sunday when it found the…
Read updateIndia: A youth transporting 600 parrots stuffed in four iron cages kept on the roof of a Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (UPSRTC) bus was nabbed near Patel crossing in the Civil Lines area on Saturday night by a joint team of Kotwali police and forest department officials. An FIR was lodged against him…
Read updateIndia: A team of social forestry department on Sunday arrested a poacher from Tanda Bijesi village under Neuria police station after a video showing him killing a baby crocodile was widely circulated. This reptile is listed as protected in schedule-I of the Wildlife Protection Act and its poaching invites stringent…
Read updateIndia: Police have arrested one person with a leopard skin in Ghat, 30 km from Pithoragarh town. Acting on a tip-off, a team of the Special Operations Group and the forest department stopped a person at Ghat on Wednesday and found a leopard skin in his bag, said Ram Chandra Rajguru, superintendent of police,…
Read updateIndia: Three months after it was set up, the Uttar Pradesh Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (UPWCCB) has cracked its first case — the brutal killing of a 25-year-old female elephant in Bijnor early this year. Four people have been arrested for the crime, officials said on Wednesday. However, 12 others are still at…
Read updateIndia: At least 30 Alexandrine parrots, known for their ability to mimic humans, were rescued here when they were being illegally transported from Punjab, a senior wildlife official said Monday. Two smugglers, hailing from Punjab, were arrested while the search for a man who was to receive the consignment for illegal…
Read updateIndia: Crime branch unit 1, on Saturday, arrested four people trying to sell a Sand Boa, a rare snake species, which comes under the Schedule 3 animals under the Wild Life Protection Act 1972. Recently the city and rural police arrested people in possession of the snake. It appears to have two heads and there are…
Read updateIndia: Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Mumbai unit in a joint operation with WCCB & Forest Department has seized 523 star tortoise from one train passenger at the Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Railway station on September 6. The lady accused who was travelling from Puttaparthi, in Andhra Pradesh to Kurla Terminus has…
Read updateIndia: The Valsad district court has remanded to forest department custody an owner of a private farm house in the interior village of Kaprada taluka after he was arrested for illegally keeping two blackbucks. Kaprada range forest officials rescued the blackbucks from the farmhouse of Arshad Illyas Khan, 31, at…
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