Wildlife Crime News
Selected wildlife crime reporting from external publishers, clearly attributed and linked to its original source.
Nepal: Nearly 10 days after famous tiger Prince was found dead with a missing snout at Bandipur Tiger Reserve, forest staff managed to find the snout inside a pit, a few meters away from the place where the tiger's carcass was lying. The carcass of 12-year-old Prince was found at Lokkare forest, coming under Kundkere…
Read updateIndia: A body of an adult tigress was found in the Dachauri range of Ramnagar forest division on Friday. The body was spotted by a forest department patrol. It was the seventh tiger which died in the hill state this year. So many tigers dying in a span of just three and a half months has raised concerns among…
Read updateIndia: Police in a joint operation with forest officials arrested two persons and seized tiger bones from Kolaguripathar at the Bihaliarea in Sonitpur district, some 250 km from here, on Thursday. The two were identified as Jiten Namo Das and Pramod Hazarika. Police said, "The seized items include a tiger skull and…
Read updateIndia: An animal welfare organisation has announced a reward of Rs 1 lakh to help nab the thief responsible for stealing four tusks. Interestingly, the reward announced by Humane Society International India (HSI India) is not about a recent case of elephant-poaching. The tusks, stolen from the Sankarankulangara…
Read updateIndia: A 3-year-old male tiger died mysteriously in Madhya Pradesh’s Sanjay-Dubri Tiger Reserve on Tuesday evening, taking the number of big cat deaths in the state to 6 this year. Dileep Kumar, field director of the reserve, told Hindustan Times that the tiger was shifted to Sanjay Tiger Reserve from Pench on March…
Read updateSri Lanka: Acting on a tip-off, the naval personnel attached to the North Central Naval Command apprehended two persons who were illegally transporting sea hog (dugong) flesh at Oluthuduwai yesterday. During the arrest, 82 Kg sea hog flesh and three knives were recovered with the suspects. The suspects and seized…
Read updateIndia: In a major breakthrough, the special task force (STF) of Madhya Pradesh forest department has arrested three poachers who have the blood of at least 30 tigers on their hands and were wanted by CBI in connection with tiger poaching cases in the Vidarbha region between October 2012 and May 2013. Foot soldiers of…
Read updateNepal: A one-horned male rhinoceros, supposed to be around 14- years-old, was killed in the Chitwan National Park, which had witnessed zero rhino poaching for 1071 days. Once the dead single-horned Asiatic rhinoceros was spotted by the locals at Hariyali Banhatta of Jagatpur in Bharatpur Metropolitan City -23 on…
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Nepal: Nepal Police’s Central Investigation Bureau arrested three persons on charge of smuggling wild animal’s parts. Acting on a tip-off, the CIB apprehended Binesh Bhandari (23), Anup Bartaula (33) and Bibek Bartaula (25) of Hetaunda, Makawanpur from Balaju of Kathmandu, and seized a leopard hide from their…
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