Wildlife Crime News
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India: The Forest Department on Wednesday seized four tiger bones, eight antlers, and eight bundles of snare wires used to trap wild animals inside the Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve (STR). The officials have pressed into service a dog squad from Mudumalai Tiger Reserve to track the accused. On January 22, the police…
Read updateIndia: A special team of Sathyamangalam forest officials on Saturday arrested the fourth accused in connection with last week's seizure of a tiger skin in Karnataka. The officials said the accused, Siddappa, a resident of Thiaganarai village in Thalavadi taluk in Sathyamangalam, was the main accused and he had…
Read updateIndia: A Nepalese citizen was today arrested here for possessing a seven-feet long leopard skin, the police said. Dammer Rana was arrested by the Special Operations Group (SOG) from near Maharajke Park on Jhoolaghat Road, Deputy Superintendent of Police Pithoragarh Shekhar Chandra Juyal said. During investigation,…
Read updateIndia In a major action, Forest Department officials arrested 11 poachers and seized 60 kg of wild boar meet, huge stock of chital antlers and other material from their possession. The action was taken in Ashtabhuja area of Chandrapur on Monday afternoon. According to sources, the Forest Department officials received…
Read updateIndia: A joint team of police, forest department and special operation group (SOG) seized a 2.2-m long and 1.35-m wide leopard skin worth Rs 5-7 lakh in the international market and arrested one person under the Wildlife Protecttion Act, 1972. The accused, identified as Tej Jagri, a native of Nepal, was on his way to…
Read updateIndia: The Karnataka police arrested three men and confiscated a tiger skin, suspected to be of a tigress' from the Satyamangalam Tiger Reserve (STR), from them in Yeshwantpura on January 22. The three men, Balakrishna, Mahesha and Rangaraju, are from Thalavadi in STR, Tamil Nadu. The police handed over the custody…
Read updateIndia: The air intelligence unit of the customs seized 80 star tortoises from a 49-year-old passenger at Trichyinternational airport in the early hours of Friday. The man, identified as K Zahir Hussain of Ilaiyankudi in Sivagangai district, was trying to smuggle the tortoises to Bangkok. Trade in star tortoises has…
Read updateIndia: A Dudhwa Tiger Reserve (DTR) team led by deputy director Mahaveer Kaujalgi has arrested two Delhi-based smugglers with skins of two leopards and sent them to the Lakhimpur district jail on Wednesday. Kaujalgi said acting on a tip-off, the team first arrested Dhiraj Bhasin, a resident of Nilgiri Apartment in…
Read updateIndia: The RMC Yard police have seized a tiger pelt from three persons who were arrested on Monday near Yeshwantpur bus stand while they were waiting for a prospective buyer. The accused — Balakrishna, 28; Mahesh, 23; and Rangaraj, 36 — hail from Talawada village in Tamil Nadu, and are poachers, said the police. They…
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