Wildlife Crime News
Selected wildlife crime reporting from external publishers, clearly attributed and linked to its original source.
India:The wildlife wing of the forest department, which made tall claims of zero poaching, stands exposed after a sub-adult tiger has been found moving with a wire snare in its neck inside the Tipeshwar Wildlife Sanctuary, 180km from here, in Yavatmal district. In the 148sqkm sanctuary, there are two males and two…
Read updateIndia: The government's wildlife crime control agency has seized huge consignments of live animals, ivory, tiger and leopard skins among other products and arrested 71 people in a nationwide crackdown on illegal trade in wildlife, in coordination with Interpol. The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) under the…
Read updateIndia: The Mir Chowk police on Wednesday arrested two persons and seized eight ivory from their possession at Kali Khaber bus stop. Acting on a specific alert, the Mir Chowk police arrested B Narsaiah of Nagole and A Srinivas Reddy of Bholakpur when they were waiting for prospective customers at Kali Khaber bus stop…
Read updateIndia: The Wildlife Management authorities on Wednesday arrested Bavirisetty Pavan Kumar while he was allegedly attempting to sell leopard skin at Jangareddygudem bus terminus in West Godavari district. A team of forest officials led by Kaikaluru Range Assistant Conservator of Forest (Wildlife) N. Ramachandra Rao on…
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India: In a horrific poaching incident in Himachal Pradesh, outlaws not only hunted down a leopard but also hacked away its four paws. Suspicion is that the paws were sawed off for the nails which fetch several lakh rupees in the international black market, besides the hide. The carcass was found in the forests of…
Read updateIndia: Barely a week after a spotted deer fell prey to poachers on the Hyderabad Central University (HCU) campus, another deer was brutally killed with the chopped off head left near the Old Horticulture Garden on Tuesday evening. It was Sathya Prakash, a faculty of the University, who saw the head of the spotted…
Read updateIndia: The Bagdogra police on Sunday arrested three persons following a tip-off in connection with the smuggling of a rare species of lizard. The arrested included a wildlife smuggler and two customers and they were nabbed near a petrol pump in lower Bagdogra. The lizard, measuring 16 inches and weighing 200 grams,…
Read updateIndia: The carcass of a sub adult crocodile with its head missing was recovered by the field force of social forestry here on Friday evening from river Sharda's downstream feeder canal. Autopsy reports confirmed that the one-and-a-half year-old reptile had been killed by poachers. The crocodile is enlisted in…
Read updateIndia:A total of 35 bags containing nearly 1,500 tortoises were seized by railway authorities here on Friday. Following a tip off, Railway Protection Force (RPF) carried out a raid and seized the bags. Three people, residence of Uttar Pradesh have been arrested till now in the case. "We have seized tortoises from 35…
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