Wildlife Crime News
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India: Two members of a gang of people who killed fruit bats, and allegedly sold their meat and oil extracted from them saying it can be used to cure asthma and joint pain, have been arrested by the Thane Forest Department's territorial wing at Ambernath. Sources from the Forest Department said that some locals are…
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India: A special team of the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) Tuesday night conducted raids at a place near Lakhanpur village under Debrigarh Sanctuary in Bargarh district and seized 80 sambar deer horns weighing about 28 kg and four bear nails. They also arrested Sujit Kumar Bhue (27) of Gaurpali, a neighbouring…
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India: Police in Assam’s Dhemaji district seized 43 heads of deer with antlers besides other animal body parts from two persons from Arunachal Pradesh on Saturday . The haul, believed to be one of the biggest in years, included heads and skins of two clouded leopards, a bear head and skin, a wild goat head with…
Read updateIndia: Heads and skins of two clouded leopards, a bear head and skin, a wild goat head with antlers, four otter skins, a hornbill beak and bones of different animals were seized. Police in Assam’s Dhemaji district seized 43 heads of deer with antlers besides other animal body parts from two persons from Arunachal…
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India:The soldiers of SSB’s 53rd Battalion Simlabari seized armaments and an elephant tusk from Jaigaon today. One man named Manju Miyan, a local of Jaigaon, was arrested in connection to this. Manju Miyan was arrested with the arms and the elephant tusk in his possession after the soldiers of the battalion received…
Read updateNepal: An elephant has been killed by a group of poachers at Punarbas Municipality-10 in Kanchanpur district, on Thursday night, said the Disrict Forest Office. Acting Forest Office at the DFO Bir Bahadur Thagunna confirmed that the elephant was killed by laying a trap inside the local Namuna Community Forest…
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India: In what is believed to be one of the largest seizures of its kind in the country, officials of the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) and West Bengal Forest Department have seized 32,985 mongoose-hair painting brushes from Kolkata’s Burrabazar area. Four shopkeepers selling these brushes in wholesale market…
Read updateIndia: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence and the Forest Protection Squad in Tamil Nadu have confirmed the arrest of a person for keeping 2515 rare Indian Star tortoises for smuggling purposes. The tortoises were recovered from the residence of a person living in Avadi which is on the outskirts of Chennai. After…
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India: A 45 years old smuggler named Rathindra Sarkar was caught by the 53rd Battalion of SSB and the Simulbari Forest Department for possessing elephant’s teeth from the Satpukur Sandabari area of Falakata. Sarkar was nabbed during a special operation that had been planned based on inputs from secret sources. The…
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