Wildlife Crime News
Selected wildlife crime reporting from external publishers, clearly attributed and linked to its original source.
India: Four pairs of African Pygmy Falcons, three red and blue macaws and three electus parrots were seized from a car on Kalyani Expressway on Wednesday. A team from the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) had been waiting at the Muragacha crossing on the expressway to intercept the car that was to deliver the…
Read updateNepal: Armed Police Force (APF) has arrested a man along with 10 kilograms of red sandalwood from Malibara village of Jaleshwor municipality-3 in Mahottari district Wednesday morning. He is Ramprit Paswan, 51, of Janakpur Sub-Metropolitan City-3 in Dhanusha district, according to the APF Customs and Revenue Company,…
Read updateIndia: Officials of the Kaziranga National Park's northern range arrested poacher Yakub Ali from Panbazar in Guwahati on Tuesday. Ali was the main shooter in the Sildubi rhino poaching incident at Panpur of Sonitpur district, in the sixth addition of the national park, on May 29. The range officials claimed there was…
Read updateCITES: International operation against the illegal trade in wild animals and plants including timber has seen hundreds of seizures worldwide as well as arrests of suspects. Code-named “Thunderstorm” and targeting the people and networks behind global wildlife crime, the operation involved police, customs, border,…
Read updateIndia: Two more poachers were arrested from the northern range of the sixth addition of Kaziranga National Park who confessed to have killed a rhino at Panpur in Sonitpur district on May 29. Sono Ngaihte of Churachandpur in Manipur along with Kamal Tawang of Lakhimpur in Assam were arrested at Gohpur. The duo were…
Read updateIndia: Crime branch of Indore police on Friday arrested a man, who had been on run in a case of critically endangered Indian star tortoises smuggling and keeping them at his home. Police said that they had received a tip-off about the whereabouts of 32-year-old Neeraj Sharma. Sharma had been on run in a case lodged…
Read updateIndia: The judicial magistrate court in Kotagiri on Wednesday sentenced three persons to three years imprisonment and fined Rs. 10,500 each in connection with a case of poaching a wild elephant for its ivory tusks. Selvam, Forest Range Officer, Sigur Range and (in-charge) of Thengumaradah Section, said that the case…
Read updateIndia: Forest officials have nabbed five persons while tying to allegedly sell five Indian Star Tortoises (Geochelone elegans) which were smuggled to the state from Karnataka for illegal sale. The forest flying squad from Kozhikode nabbed the accused at the Thondayad junction and took a Maruti Swift car and a two…
Read updateIndia: Two people, including a constable of Indo-Tibetan border police (ITBP), were arrested in Champawatwith five leopard skins which they were planning to smuggle to Nepal. The suspected poachers were arrested at Banbasa near the Indo-Nepal border on Sunday even as one of their accomplices managed to escape. This…
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