Wildlife Crime News
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Nepal: The Central Investigation Beureau of Nepal Police on Wednesday arrested five persons including a teenager in possession of a leopard hide, from Swayambhu, KMC-15. Police identified four of the suspects as Ranjit Putuwar aka Bhupendra (23) of Ichangunarayan of Kathmandu, Bir Bahadur Tamang of Dahachok on the…
Read updateIndia: A total number of 900 bottles of Phensedyl and tortoise bones/shells weighing around 10 kg were seized from Indo-Bangla border in Malda, the BSF said today. On December 20, 2016 specific information was received regarding smuggling of huge quantity of Phensedyl bottles from India to Bangladesh and accordingly…
Read updateIndia: The MP forest department’s special task force (STF) arrested 39 people for poaching three tigers, four leopards and 200 wild boars, busting a major poaching network in the Pench-Kanha corridor in Seoni and Balaghat districts. The arrested people include four tantrics, 14 middlemen and 21 poachers. Forest…
Read updateIndia: Two adult elephants were killed and another injured in two separate incidents in Assam’s Goalpara and Nagaon districts close on the heels of three others being killed two days ago in Hojai district. An elephant died and another was injured by a goods train when they were crossing a rail line at Darangiri in…
Read updateIndia: In a bizarre twist to the demonetisation aftershocks, two witch doctors have been arrested for allegedly instigating villagers to kill tigers for their paws, saying they could cast magic spells to "rain money in new currency". Seven suspects have been arrested from Seoni district in the past week for killing…
Read updateIndia: In a major breakthrough, notorious absconding tiger poacher Kuttu alias Rahul Gulabsingh Gondthakur (30) was nabbed in Lakhimpur-Kheri, bordering Nepal, in a joint operation by Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) and Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) on Tuesday evening. On January 21 this year, Kuttu…
Read updateIndia: Just days after two men with four pods containing bear bile were apprehended near Doiwala, the forest department has arrested another man with two pods of Himalayan black bear bile in Rishikesh. Pankaj Singh, a resident of Rudraprayag was arrested on Sunday. Days before, Dushyant Singh and Ravindra Kumar, both…
Read updateNepal: Police on Friday arrested two foreigners – an Indian and a Qatari national – in possession of six live Eurasian eagle-owls from the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu. Mohammad Sumelan (30) from India and Faisal Mohammad (passport number: 01095185) from Qatar were arrested while they were about to…
Read updateGlobal: Four people have been caught at customs in south China while attempting to smuggle rare shellfish products from Vietnam. Two of the suspects are Vietnamese, said an official with the customs of Pingxiang, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on Saturday. Customs seized 17 tonnes of tridacna, a large saltwater…
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