Wildlife Crime News
Selected wildlife crime reporting from external publishers, clearly attributed and linked to its original source.
India: Two persons were arrested for allegedly killing a deer that strayed into a village from a forest in West Singhbhum district, forest officials said today. The deer was killed yesterday in Pachasai village under the jurisdiction of Noamundi police station, the officials said, adding that the accused were…
Read updateIndia: Two persons were arrested for allegedly poaching a leopard in the forests of Dodarna (I) in Kubheer mandal on May 26. They were produced before the media by forest officials in Bhainsa on Monday. Nirmal Forest Divisional Officer J Gopal Rao said the accused — Devbhale Dada Rao and Devbhale Parameshwar — were…
Read updateIndia: Four men accused of poaching a spotted deer, a wild animal of Schedule -IV under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, in Sivagiri, were detained by the staff of Forest Department on Saturday. Besides, meat weighing about 25 kg was recovered and a country gun, aruval, knife, rod and two bikes were seized from…
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Nepal: One person has been arrested in possession of 570 kilo gram Leopard bones and its hide from Pipalbot in Magar gaun in Lalitpur Metropolitan City-18 on Tuesday, police said. Police identified the suspect as Nakal Bahadur Bal (54) of Indrasarobar Rural Municipality-4 in Makwanpur district. Acting on a tip-off, a…
Read updateIndia: Seven poachers were recently arrested for hunting pangolins — the world’s most trafficked animal — in Kudremukh National Park. With rising demand for pangolin meat and its scales in the international markets of China and Vietnam, poaching of pangolin has been on the rise. In fact, four species of Asian…
Read updateIndia: Two dreaded poachers were nabbed by Sootea police in Biswanath district of Assam on Thursday. Sootea police managed to nab the poachers when they are trying to sneak into the sixth addition of Kaziranga National Park with the evil intention of rhino poaching. Arms and ammunition were also seized from the…
Read updateIndia: Two poachers were on Tuesday caught with four Indian eagle-owls near Chikkodi in Belagavi district while they were delivering the birds to a ‘potential customer’ they had met on an online portal. Little did they know that they were walking into a trap laid by forest department officials. Bahu Saheb Annappa and…
Read updateIndia: The pair of hoolock gibbons, two palm civets and 42 exotic birds of different species seized from a car on the Basanti Highway on Thursday were allegedly on their way to Mumbai. The animals were to be delivered to a seller waiting near Science City, who would in turn transport them to Mumbai, said an official…
Read updateIndia: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has arrested two men for allegedly smuggling gibbons and some exotic birds into the country from Bangladesh. Acting on inputs, the DRI officials intercepted a car near the Indo-Bangla border at North 24 Parganas yesterday. Three cages full of wild animals and 40…
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