Wildlife Crime News
Selected wildlife crime reporting from external publishers, clearly attributed and linked to its original source.
India: The authorities have nabbed five people at Daryapur in Amravati for trying to illegally sell a 4.5 kg red sand boa (Eryx johnii). Called 'Mandul' in Marathi, the near-threatened species is said to have great demand in international and domestic markets due to superstitions over it bringing good luck and its…
Read updateIndia: Tiger skin, about 11 feet long, was seized from Gariaband district in Chhattisgarh, police said on Thursday. After the Wednesday night seizure, two people were arrested under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. The skin is reportedly worth millions of rupees in the international market. The length of the skin,…
Read updateIndia More than 200 turtles were seized from two youths on the Amritsar Mail at Bandel last Wednesday. The Indian soft-shelled turtles, listed under Schedule 1 of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, were found stuffed in gunny sacks and other bags. The youths, who had boarded the train from Varanasi, had kept the bags…
Read updateIndia: Forest department officials seized two tiger claws, two teeth and a few tiger bones from the houses of two accused involved in poaching a tiger at Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve (STR) here recently. The seizures were made following a confession from two accused Anand (28) and Siddaraj (30) of Thiginarai village…
Read updateIndia: Three persons were arrested on Monday for hunting wild animals. Two other persons managed to flee. About 150 kilograms of skinned meat of wild animals, skins of spotted dear, black bucks and blue bulls were recovered from their possession. The accused were trapped early in the morning at Bharat Talkies. Police…
Read updateIndia: The Interpol has praised India after the Madhya Pradesh Forest Department's State Tiger Strike Force (STSF) managed to arrest a turtle smugglerwhose network was spread across several countries, MP forest officials said on Monday. The Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (PCCF), Wildlife, Jitendra Agrawal,…
Read updateIndia: Forest officials of Belakoba forest seized one clouded leopard skin and arrested Mahesh Rai along with Surya Kumar, residents of Sikkim in connection with the smuggling. According to them, on the basis of a secret information, a special team of Belakoba forest range targeted few people, who were assembled near…
Read updateIndia: Hunters arrested with arms and ammunitions and a kill by Halgur range officials BENGALURU: In a major breakthrough for the state Forest Department, a group of six regular hunters were arrested by Halgur range officials recently in connection with the killing of a scheduled species in Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary…
Read updateIndia: A gang of poachers, including a "sharp shooter" from Arunachal Pradesh and a teacher, sneaked into the Jaldapara National Park and shot dead an adult female rhino on Monday, sawing away its horn. Foresters could nab six of them on Tuesday and recovered the horn. Also, a rifle that they had buried in the…
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