Wildlife Crime News
Selected wildlife crime reporting from external publishers, clearly attributed and linked to its original source.
India: The Golaghat Police arrested two rhino poachers from Furkating Railway station under Golaghat police station on Tuesday night. According to police report, following secret information, Golaghat Police under the leadership of Additional SP Druba Bora, launched an operation against the rhino poachers and…
Read updateIndia: Eight pitcher plants that are found in the Khasi Hills of Meghalaya and two varieties of orchid were seized from a house in Rahara last week. Stocking or cultivating these outside the wild is banned under the wildlife protection act. The Orchids seized are Blue Vanda and Ladies Slipper. Seventy-four plants…
Read updateNepal: Police said four persons were arrested in possession of tiger skin from Sandhara of KMC-6, on Monday. Acting on a tip-off, police teams deployed from Metropolitan Police Sector, Kapan and Metropolitan Crime Branch, Bouddha apprehended 27-year-old Shyam Karki of Dashrathchand Municipality-6 in Baitadi district…
Read updateIndia: The CBI has arrested an alleged wildlife contraband dealer who was intercepted with over seven kilograms of tiger bones in his possession, officials said. The CBI acted after receiving information that Mangal Lamafrom Nepal was allegedly indulging in illegal trafficking of wildlife material especially skins,…
Read updateIndia: Two people were arrested by Jakhlabanda police on Saturday because of their alleged involvement in helping poachers coming from Manipur, police said . Poaching has risen in Kaziranga National Park even with the security forces thwarting rhino poachers several times. On Saturday Jakhalabandha police arrested…
Read updateIndia: In a major haul, Assam Rifles on Saturday seized two Tokay Geckos on Imphal-Moreh National Highway (NH 102) of Manipur. Acting on specific information, a Red Colour Pulsar Bike having registered number KA 03 HP 0970 was intercepted at Permanent Vehicle Check Post (PVCP), Khudengthabi by a team of 12 Assam…
Read updateIndia: Officials from CID and Wildlife Crime Control Bureau collectively raided a truck near the Dhulagarh toll plaza and rescued around 2,500 Indian soft shell turtles. While 1,799 of them could be sent to the Salt Lake Turtle Rehabilitation Centre, the rest were declared dead during transportation from Bhubaneswar…
Read updateIndia: The forest department has arrested one of the accused in the case of a leopard cub being beaten to death with sticks in Bazpur during April. The Belpadav forest ranger S Pant informed that acting on a tip off from an informers, the Belpadav forest range staff arrested one of the accused named in tthe case,…
Read updateIndia: The Thane crime branch arrested two persons for smuggling leopard skin . The police said that both the accused Mohan Sakaate, 29, resident of Mudhale village in Baramati and Shivdas Pote, 39, resident of Morgaon village in Baramati were nabbed with the consignment.Sakate works as a JCB operator while Pote is a…
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