Wildlife Crime News
Selected wildlife crime reporting from external publishers, clearly attributed and linked to its original source.
India: About 2000 tortoises were recovered from a truck by a joint team of CID and West Bengal police from the Chakdaha-Bongao road under Chakdaha police station area in Nadia district, police said on Wednesday. On an information, CID sleuths and policemen intercepted the truck carrying 2000 tortoises wrapped in 50…
Read updateIndia: The Red-sanders Anti-Smuggling Task Force along with the forest department officials seized 280 logs of the precious wood in the Vonipenta Forest Range in Kadapa district on Thursday. In the wee hours of Thursday, when the smugglers were loading the logs onto the vehicles, the officials raided their places at…
Read updateIndia: Forest officials on Tuesday seized about 15 kg of venison and arrested a poacher from Batighar village on the fringes of the Bhitarkanika Wildlife Sanctuary in Kendrapara district. “Acting on information that poachers had hunted a spotted deer in the mangrove forest areas within the park, houses of suspected…
Read updateNepal: Police said two persons have been arrested in possession of Eurasian otter from Kalimati of KMC-12. The mammal (scientific name Lutra lutra) is considered to be Near Threatened species due to sharp fall in its population and has been included in the IUCN’s Red List. A special police team deployed from the…
Read updateIndia: A wildlife photographer, who works as a software engineer in the city, was among four people arrested for illegally selling mounted trophies of tigers and a leopard. The police have recovered three stuffed tigers and one black panther, which are alleged to have been obtained from a businessman in Mysuru. The…
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Nepal: Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police run an operation under 'Operation Thunderbird' from January to February 2017 and arrested 18 suspects, seized wildlife products and rescued live animals from different parts of Nepal. The operation was initiated under the aegis of the International Consortium…
Read updateIndia: Dinesh is said to be a habitual offender who He has cases against him for timber smuggling. He has good clout with people in the local haadis, who are under his influence and tend to be hostile towards the department, according to sources. While initial reports indicate that the tiger was snared, senior…
Read updateIndia: In a major breakthrough, a joint team of City Police, forest guards and CRPF today busted a poachers' gang inside the Garbhanga Reserve Forest and seized a large cache of weapons and other war-like stores from their possession. Four poachers were arrested while around six others managed to flee, the police…
Read updateBangladesh: Wildlife Crime Control Unit of the Bangladesh Forest Department rescued a total of 255 birds of different species from bird traders at Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka, this morning. A WCCU team in a drive seized the birds in the morning, said Ashim Kumar Mallick, wildlife inspector of WCCU, told The…
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