Wildlife Crime News
Selected wildlife crime reporting from external publishers, clearly attributed and linked to its original source.
India: Kaziranga forest officials on Saturday arrested a poacher, Jabidur Rahman alias Bhujel, who has three rhino poaching cases against him. The poacher was arrested from Niz Biswanath under Biswanath Chariali police station in the sixth addition of Kaziranga early in the morning. He was arrested from his house in…
Read updateIndia: A joint team of the Champawat police and the special operations group (SOG) has seized a leopard skin and arrested a person near Devidhura under the limits of Pati police station in Champawat district. The accused, Manoj Singh Bisht, a native of Mukteshwar in Nainital district, was on his way to Nepal with the…
Read updateIndia: Police on Friday arrested two people for trying to sell a pangolin, a rare and highly endangered insectivore, with officials claiming that the animal. Acting on a tip-off, personnel from the Crime Branch’s Unit V kept watch and arrested the duo from near a temple in the Wagle Estate area of the city. Assistant…
Read updateIndia: A team of special task force (STF) has arrested two persons with two leopard hides from a village in Khargone district. The accused, Billor Singh and Kailash Solanki, were carrying the leopard hides with an intention to sell it to customers in village Kumharbedi, when the STF team zoomed in and arrested them…
Read updateIndia: Four poachers, including a woman, working for an inter-state gang were arrested with 250 parrots — a protected species under the wildlife Protection Act, 1972 — from inside the Pipli forest area under Azim Nagar Kotwali police station in Rampur district on Wednesday. According to police, a joint team of forest…
Read updateIndia: The directorate of revenue intelligence (DRI) sleuths have arrested two women for smuggling a whopping 406 Indian star tortoises, a vulnerable species declared endangered by International Union for Conservation of Nation (IUCN) at Vijayawada railway station on Tuesday. The DRI sleuths, on acquiring specific…
Read updateIndia: Forest officials of the Northern range of Kaziranga National Park have arrested a poacher involved in last week's rhino killing, recovered the horn and seized the arms and ammunition allegedly used in the incident. A 20-year-old male rhino was killed by poachers at Polokata Tapu in the sixth addition of…
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India: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) arrested two persons from Thursday and seized considerable quantity of elephant tusk from them. The youths were carrying the ivory in three pieces which weighs about 12 kilos, sources said. The arrested Saiful Islam hails from Assam and Santosh Pradhan is a…
Read updateIndia: The Uttarakhand forest officials and police have stumbled upon a thriving illegal trade in endangered wildlife body parts that are being sold as religious items and immunity boosters in Haridwar’s Roorkee, officials said on Thursday. Police raided two shops at the Roorkee main market that sell religious items…
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