Wildlife Crime News
Selected wildlife crime reporting from external publishers, clearly attributed and linked to its original source.
India: Two smugglers were arrested from Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal with a 10-feet-long leopard skin, forest department officers said. The two, who are inhabitants of Jaigaon in Bhutan border, were apprehended from a dhaba at Odlabari area last night during a raid, they said. The leopard skin was being…
Read updateIndia: An Afghan national has been arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle in 114 kgs of corals at the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) here. The accused was intercepted by customs officials after his arrival from Kabul on Monday. "On personal and baggage search, organ pipe coral species weighing 114 kgs…
Read updateIndia: The special operation group (SOG) of Champawat police has arrested an alleged poacher and recovered three leopard skins, worth over Rs 20 lakh in the international market, from his possession. Acting on a tip-off, the SOG team with the help of the forest department nabbed 32-year-old Hoshiyar Singh from…
Read updateIndia: Fifteen leopard skins were seized in 50 days in Uttarakhand this year, showing a spike in smuggling of animal body parts during the election period when, forest officers said, the focus was on seizure of cash, liquor and weapons. “Wildlife criminals are smart. They knew that during elections, police and other…
Read updateIndia: Forest officials have arrested five people who were poaching wild animals by laying a trap at Nagarahole Tiger Reserve near Gonikoppa. The arrested are Kutta, Basava, Mutha, Kavala and Chubra, all residents of Paldalla Haadi. It is said that they were poaching animals by laying a trap near the periphery of the…
Read updateIndia: The police and forest department on Friday arrested three persons for poaching two rare species of deer in Mohangarh area of Jaisalmer. They also recovered the carcasses of deer and half-cooked meat. Reportedly, a poaching gang of Pak-Hindu migrants is behind the act. Locals were agitating for last 40 hours in…
Read updateIndia: Injured in a leopard attack, a farm labourer and his friends allegedly beat up the carnivore to death with an axe and wooden sticks, tied its legs to a heavy stone and threw the carcass in a river in Gir-Somnath district. The villagers did not stop the atrocity at that and went on to retrieve the carcass from…
Read updateSri Lanka: A Sri Lankan woman was arrested with 11 kilograms of pangolin scales by the airport customs officers last night while she was trying to smuggle them to Chennai. Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) Deputy Director Parakrama Basnayake said this was the largest stock of pangolin scales ever detected in…
Read updateIndia: A combing party of the Red Sanders Anti Smuggling Task Force (RSASTF) opened two rounds of fire reportedly to quell a mob of stone-pelting smuggling operatives at Yerrollabandalu gradient, 3 km from the forest check post of Bhakarapeta of Tirupati wildlife circle, in the early hours of Thursday. 21 logs…
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