Wildlife Crime News
Selected wildlife crime reporting from external publishers, clearly attributed and linked to its original source.
India: Mr S.A. Sohail, the owner of the high-profile Fur and Feathers, the shop selling exotic birds at Banjara Hills, was questioned on Monday by the Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh police and forest department officials who are investigating an Indo-Nepal wildlife smuggling racket. Mr Sohail’s name came up when the…
Read updateIndia: The City Crime Investigation Bureau (CCIB) police arrested six persons in two separate cases for illegally trying to sell a wild owl alive and the skin of a leopard on Sunday. Police Commissioner T.G. Krishna Bhat told newsmen here on Monday that working on a tip-off, a CCIB team arrested two persons carrying…
Read updateIndia: Two snake charmers have been arrested and a rare red sand boa, four live cobras and a skull of a jackal recovered from them here, police said today. A team of Forest Department officials raided the homes of the two snake charmers yesterday at Mirukhedi village in Narsinghgarh here and recovered skull and flesh…
Read updateIndia: A 32-year-old Chinese national was recently convicted and sentenced to three years rigorous imprisonment by a magistrate’s court for allegedly trying to smuggle priceless exotic turtles from India to Shanghai in 2013. The court also ordered her to pay a fine of Rs10,000, stating that if she fails do so, then…
Read updateNepal: Police said two persons were arrested in possession of two red panda hides from Jorpati, Gokarneshwor Municipality of Kathmandu. The suspects have been identified as 29-year-old Pritam Tamang of Balekhu-2 in Okhaldhunga district and 25-year-old Sambhav Waiba aka Deni of Tamajor-2 in Sindhuli district. Acting…
Read updateIndia: The gang of 12 sambar poachers, led by Rafiq Ahmed, are believed to have links with similar cases reported in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, making it one of the largest hi-tech poaching networks uncovered in recent times in the country. Sources said Rafiq also had links…
Read updateIndia: Indian police have seized more than 6,000 freshwater turtles from poachers who planned to smuggle them out of the country. The live flapshell turtles were found stuffed in sacks near Amethi in Uttar Pradesh state, bound for Kolkata. One man has been arrested over the four-tonne haul, thought to be the largest…
Read updateBangladesh: Forest department and Rapid Action Battalion on Saturday evening seized 11 pieces hides of barking deer and arrested two poachers from Kadamtali in the city. The detainees are identified as Mostaq Ahmed and Mohammad Moniruzzaman. Wildlife inspector Ashim Mallick of the Wildlife Crime Control Unit told New…
Read updateIndia: After high drama, Forest Department personnel attached to Mandapam range seized 471 kg of fresh and 36 kg of processed sea cucumbers, protected under Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, during a drive against fishing of the endangered species in Vedhalai near here on Sunday. After receiving…
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