Wildlife Crime News
Selected wildlife crime reporting from external publishers, clearly attributed and linked to its original source.
Nepal: The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police on Monday arrested Lodu Dime, a notorious wildlife smuggler involved in illegal trading and trafficking of wildlife parts. Dime aka Jimi, who has been convicted of wildlife crime in Nepal, was brought back to the country after his arrest by Indian Police…
Read updateIndia: Five suspected poachers were arrested with three SBBL guns and wildlife carcasses from Borguli range of the Daying Ering Memorial Wildlife Sanctuary. The poachers were nabbed in Jopong Paatang area of the sanctuary on Friday evening by personnel from the Forest department led by DFO Tasang Taga. The poachers…
Read updateIndia: Two persons were apprehended by the Telangana forest department officials on Wednesday for trying to sell a red sand boa snake, popularly known as ‘two-headed snake’, online. The arrested included Uday Kumar and Ramesh from Tandur Mandal in Vikarabad district. They had advertised on the Internet that they had…
Read updateIndia: The crime branch’s unit-I has arrested two college students for hunting Alexandrine Parakeet (wild parrots). Action was initiated after the president of Wildlife Welfare Association gave a tip-off to the senior police officers in the crime branch. They have seized four Alexandrine Parakeets from the duo. The…
Read updateIndia: Three people were arrested here in the early hours early on Monday for shooting a nilgai. Portions of its meat were also seized from them. One of them turned out to be a shooter who has participated in competitions at Pilibhit rifle club. Two licenced firearms and ammunition were also seized from them.…
Read updateIndia: A member of an inter-state gang of rhino horn smugglers was arrested in Assam's Sivasagar district on Monday. "Based on specific information, we arrested Kapil Kahar, 32, a resident of Salmari village near Demow town, and seized a rhino horn weighing 1.5kg from him," Sivasagar deputy superintendent of police…
Read updateIndia: Tightening the noose around the poachers, the Forest Department sleuths arrested at least four hunters and seized a dead boar from their possession, after conducting a raid in Paikhelia forest under Jagannath Prasad Forest Range near here on Monday. The arrested hunters have been identified as Jalandhar Jani,…
Read updateIndia: Forest officials of Jaldapara National Park recovered the carcass of a poached bison on Sunday morning and they suspect that the animal was killed by poachers on Saturday night. The foresters claim that on Saturday night a fire broke in the 10 hectare area of JP-I compartment of Jaldapara North Range and about…
Read updateIndia: Forest officials have seized a nine-feet-long leopard skin and arrested two Bhutanese nationals in Jalpaiguri district today. A special team of the forest department, on the basis of a tip-off, conducted a raid at a house in Nagrakata and seized the skin from the duo, forest officials said. During…
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