Wildlife Crime News
Selected wildlife crime reporting from external publishers, clearly attributed and linked to its original source.
India: Police today claimed to have arrested two smugglers and recovered leopard skin from their possession at Manda Naka, under jurisdiction of Police Station Pacca Danga Jammu. Police said that the accused duo has been identified namely as Rajinder Puri and Rajinder Verma. Police spokesperson said, “During checking…
Read updateIndia: Three wildlife smugglers were arrested and 108 live turtles recovered from them, the police claimed today. The turtles were being carried in three jute bags recovered from the three men against whom a case has been registered at the Bisauli police station, officials said. "Acting on a tip-off, a police team…
Read updateIndia: In connection to the poaching of two rhinoceros in Gorumara, a Manipuri man named Muyang alias Ling Ding Muyang, has been arrested from Assam. The accused is known for being a smuggler and a hunter. On March 14, a car crash had taken place in Guwahati in which the lone survivor was found to be possessing a…
Read updateIndia: Acting on a tip-off, a checking was conducted at Chuktola Bazar area planned by Additional Superintendent of Police (HQ) Satyajit Nath and executed by SI Mukut Ch Deka along with SSB party of 22 Battalion, Bhakat Para. In the checking three hardcore poachers, namely Abdul Hasem and Nurul Hoque, both of…
Read updatePakistan: The Islamabad Wildlife Management Board (IWMB) confiscated two protected freshwater turtle species from a pet and aquarium shop on Wednesday. On a complaint from a citizen that a vendor in Sector F-10 was selling each of the turtles for Rs1,000, a team from the IWMB raided the shop and confiscated the…
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Sri Lanka: A suspect running an illegal aqua-life sales centre at Kottegoda, Matara was arrested with aqua-life particles by officers of the Hambantota Wildlife Office in a joint raid conducted with officers of the Pattiyapola Special Task Force Camp following a tip-off recently. Wildlife Range Officer J.A.P.…
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India: A joint team of the Bengal Crime Investigation Department (CID) and the Border Security Force (BSF) arrested three men from Barasat in North 24 Parganas district on Tuesday, and seized snake venom . Officials said the venom was meant to be smuggled to China through Bangladesh in three inconspicuous jars. The…
Read updateIndia: Two people were arrested by the forest department on Saturday night for poaching two peafowls at Sirumugai forest range. Forest department field staff from Sirumugai forest range were on rounds at Pethikuttai area on Saturday night and noticed two persons who were returning from a patta land in a moped with a…
Read updateIndia: A team of the Special Operations Group (SOG) of Nainital district police arrested two men with two gall bladders of the Himalayan Bear on Sunday. Janmejay Khanduri, senior superintendent of police, Nainital district, said, “We had information about two men smuggling wild animal parts. The duo was arrested from…
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