Wildlife Crime News
Selected wildlife crime reporting from external publishers, clearly attributed and linked to its original source.
India: In a joint operation, the sleuths of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) seized 43 rare Assam Roof Turtles from the Central Railway Station on Tuesday. Two of these turtles died. The officials from the Advanced Institute for Wildlife Conservation (AIWC) and Arignar Anna Zoological Park (AAZP) were…
Read updateNepal: Two persons have been arrested in possession of five live red panda on Tuesday. A police team deployed from the Metropolitan Police Circle, Durbarmarg, nabbed Sukra Rai and Ajit Basnet of Solukhumbu while they were searching for prospective clients to sell the endangered animal. DSP Dan Bahadur Malla said that…
Read updateIndia: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has smashed an international wildlife smuggling racket with the seizure of about 8,000 kg of shark fins in Mumbai and the coastal town of Veraval in Gujarat. Four persons, including the mastermind, have also been arrested. According to the DRI, the consignments…
Read updateIndia: Four poachers have been arrested by a team of Bijnor forest department and police personnel for killing an elephant, chopping it into pieces and burying its carcass six months ago. Fifteen more people have been booked under the Wildlife Protection Act allegedly for helping to chop the carcass into small pieces…
Read updateIndia: The RMC Yard police arrested a man for illegally smuggling and selling sea fans (gorgonians) in the city and seized 130 sea fans from the accused. The accused, Madhukumar, 29, a resident of Byatarayanapura, was remanded to judicial custody. The police said that sea fans or gorgonians were being smuggled from…
Read updateIndia: A 52-year-old man from Ratnagiri has been arrested with leopard skin.The Crime Branch Unit III of the Navi Mumbai Police nabbed Ashrap Chipolkar after laying a trap for him near Little World Mall last week. An unidentified person from Dapoli gave the leopard skin to Mr. Chipolkar, who was to give it to someone…
Read updateIndia: Ahead of the Naag Panchmi festival next week, Forest Department officials have seized 21 snakes from snake charmers in the Sri Krishna Janam Bhoomi area here in the past two days. More snake charmers and poachers are under the radar, an official said. Out of the 21 snakes, 14 were cobras, four rat snakes and…
Read updateIndia: Bengaluru police on Friday arrested six persons, including businessmen and a college student, who were allegedly involved in selling wild animals’ skin and horns, from Uttara Kannada district. According to sources, Mahalakshmi Layout police arrested two persons — Manjunath Ratnakar Naik of Sirsi and Krishna…
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India: Three blue eclectus parrots, one of them the more flamboyant male of the species, were found in the boot of a car that customs officials had intercepted on the Kalyani Expressway on June 27. Four pairs of African pygmy falcons, three red-and-blue macaws and seven white ducks were confiscated during the same…
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