Wildlife Crime News
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India: Five Gaboon vipers, a pair of albino African pythons, three marmosets and one meerkat was among a large consignment of exotic animals which was seized by Assam Police and the forest department at the city's Jorabat area near the Meghalaya inter-state border on Saturday. This is the largest seizure of exotic…
Read updateIndia: 241 rare and endangered tortoises have been seized by revenue intelligence officials from a hotel here, an official release said here on Saturday. Acting on specific intelligence inputs that a gang operating in Chennai and Kolkata would attempt to smuggle some Indian star tortoises to Bangkok, the Directorate…
Read updateIndia: The person accused for the death of tiger ST-11 has been a habitual poacher. The forest department has recovered peacock’s feathers and antlers from the house of alleged poacher Bhagwan Prajapat during a raid at his house in Kala Meda village. He also admitted to have poached other animals like sambar (deer)…
Read updateIndia: Police today said they have arrested three persons for allegedly possessing rare snake species sand boa here and trying to sell them. Acting on a tip-off, Crime Branch officials laid a trap at Katai Naka on the Kalyan-Shil Road late last evening and nabbed the trio who had come to sell the snake, police said.…
Read updateIndia: The customs officials today seized about 500 kg of processed sea cucumber, worth about Rs one crore, at the Gulf of Mannar sea coast near Mandapam here when it was being loaded in a country boat for Sri Lanka. However, the persons who were loading the sea cucumber managed to escape on seeing the customs…
Read updateIndia: A four-year-old male tiger was found dead in a farm in the Sariska forest area in Rajasthan's Alwar district, officials said today. The tiger was killed yesterday after it got his neck caught in the noose of a wire placed by a farmer to stop wild animals from damaging his crop, Chief Conservator of Forest…
Read updateIndia: Custom officials in Assam’s Guwahati apprehended a smuggler red-handed while he was looking to make sale on a leopard’s skin and bones. The officials seized a 7.7-feet-long leopard skin along with five kilograms of bones. Acting on a tip-off, the officials intercepted the accused, who had just reached Guwahati…
Read updateIndia: Two people have been arrested for trying to sell sand boa snakes, a protected species under the Wildlife (Protection) Act. Officials of the Ambernath police said that Suresh Nikam (32) and Sanjay Pawar (47) were nabbed from a closed mill at about 5pm yesterday. "The two snakes, also called mandul, were in a…
Read updateIndia: In the latest wildlife offence, Sundargarh forest officials have made a seizure of wild boar meat and arrested six poachers from Karuabahal forest area under Talsara police station jurisdiction,forest officials said today. The arrested persons were member of a poaching racket active in the area. Some other…
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