Wildlife Crime News
Selected wildlife crime reporting from external publishers, clearly attributed and linked to its original source.
India: The Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, has been tasked with determining whether tiger skins and bones recovered by the Uttar Pradesh STF last week may belong to a big cat from Corbett Tiger Reserve. On May 9, two poachers were arrested with tiger skin, bones, jaw and nails from Nageena Dehat in Bijnor…
Read updateIndia: Sleuths of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence on Thursday seized 1,438 star tortoises from a chocolate godown at Pudukkottai in Tamil Nadu and arrested three men. The star tortoises were meant to be smuggled to Sri Lanka via Rameswaram. The accused have been identified as M Burhaan 30, R Ameen, 34, and S…
Read updateIndia: Two chinkara poachers, who are still on the run, are also residents of Mitiyala village, their arrested accomplice has told the forest department. Amu Delvadiya, who was picked up from Mitiyala at 2am on Tuesday, said that two other poachers with him were Arvind Natha and Dharmesh Arjan. Both were working as…
Read updateIndia: Two tiger poachers were arrested with nearly 20 kilogram of bones and a skin of the wild cat in Uttar Pradesh's Bijnor, a wildlife body today said. The arrests were made after a night-long joint operation conducted by Wildlife SOS and the Special Task Force (STF) of the UP Police, a statement by Wildlife SOS…
Read updateIndia: Personnel of the local forest division have taken into custody the kingpins of an organised wildlife poaching racket while making a seizure of raw spotted wild boar meat and hides from the protected areas. The racketeers, Mangal Munda and Matu Munda, used to trap and kill the wild boar and deer species at…
Read updateIndia: Acting on a tip-off, a team of the forest department, Kalyan Government Railway Police (GRP) and Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) arrested a man from a lodge near Kalyan railway station and recovered more than 50 black pond turtles from him, of which four were already dead. According to the police, the…
Read updateIndia: The BSF, bordering Indo-Bangladesh border of south Bengal frontier, today seized over 100 kilos of tortoise bones, meant for smuggling across the border and north India, and arrested four people, three of them from Uttar Pradesh, from West Bengal's Malda district. Acting on inputs the BSF troops in association…
Read updateIndia: The forest department arrested two poachers and seized a chopped head, skin and body parts of a sambar, and weapons from them at Todgarh-Raoli Wildlife Sanctuary in Bhim tehsil of Rajsamand. There were seven poachers in total, but five of them managed to escape. Forest ranger Prema Ram Chaudhary said the men…
Read updateIndia: Acting on a tip off, range forest officer Anant Dhotre and his team nabbed six poachers from Wadgaon jungle area, about 20km from Digras tehsil in Yavatmal district, in the wee hours of Saturday. Forest officials have also seized a rifle, two live cartridges, three used cartridges, two sattur (sharp knife type…
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