Wildlife Crime News
Selected wildlife crime reporting from external publishers, clearly attributed and linked to its original source.
India: In a major crackdown, the Uttarakhand forest department seized two tusks from a resident of Ramanagar during early hours on Friday. The officers booked him under various sections of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. He is taken for 14 days remand from the local court. The officers of Terai West forest…
Read updateIndia: Two suspected poachers were arrested by the forest department today from the Tiliki reserve jungle, 80 from here, and a country-made gun, a motorbike and a mobile phone were seized from them. The arrested poachers have been identified as Silama Siba of Bhanjanagara and Pitabash Naik of Gayaganda, said…
Read updateIndia: A rhino horn was seized from four persons who were apprehended by the police in Lakhimpur district of upper Assam on Monday, police said. Rhino horns are used in traditional medicine. A joint police team led by Laluk police station officer-in-charge Biren Baruah and Bongalmara police outpost in-charge Jun…
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India: In a joint operation conducted by the Assam forest department with the wildlife crime control bureau, a major international racket of smuggling animal parts was busted on Sunday. Two people have been arrested who were part of the illegal wildlife trade. A huge number of smuggled animal parts have been seized…
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Pakistan: Two poachers were taken into custody on Monday for illegally selling tortoise meat to Chinese nationals in an impoverished southern district of Punjab district. “The poachers were arrested while shooting tortoises in the Saraya Sidhoo area of Kanewal district,” Muhammad Hussain Gashgori, director provincial…
Read updateIndia: Eight poachers were arrested and a country gun seized from them today at Sennampatty forest area in the district, forest department officials said The forest department officials said a team entered the Komarayanure and Sennampatty forest areas on a tip off that the poachers were moving around there in…
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Nepal: The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police today arrested wildlife smugglers with live birds, chimpanzees and monkeys from Bansbari, Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC), Nepal. Acting on a tip-off regarding smuggling of wildlife species from Nigeria to Nepal and possibility of transporting these to…
Read updatePakistan: “Hunters, after netting and poaching the birds, sell them in the cities like Karachi,” the district game officer said. — Dawn Poachers camp near lakes on the coastal bank when birds migrate there from Siberia. — Dawn Poachers break the birds' wings to make sure they don't escape. — Dawn The birds will be…
Read updateIndia: The Gujarat anti-terrorism squad (ATS) on Monday arrested an Uttar Pradesh man wanted in lion poaching cases dating to 2007. Sarfaraz Qureshi was arrested from his home town, Khaga, near Agra. Qureshi, who had been on the run for 10 years, used push lion bones and teeth — peddling them as tiger remains — to…
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