Wildlife Crime News
Selected wildlife crime reporting from external publishers, clearly attributed and linked to its original source.
India: Forest officials in Theni seized a tiger skin and a sambar deer skin along with a taxidermied pangolin from the Cardamom Planters Union School in Cumbum on Friday. Forest department sources said TRAFFIC, the wildlife crime control wing of the WWF-I, informed them that the school had displayed the tiger and…
Read updateIndia: The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) seized 24 star tortoises from a person selling the protected species from Airoli, Navi Mumbai on Monday. The accused, Mayuresh Nathuram Shirke, resident of Shastri Nagar, Dombivili (West), was arrested under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 with the help of wildlife…
Read updateIndia: The Pune city police arrested a man for ‘illegal possession of a sand boa snake’ on Tuesday. Police have identified the suspect as Vishal Sudhakar Mate (25), a resident of Kalewadi in Purandar. Acting on a tip-off to constable Ujjwal Mokashi of Bharati Vidyapeeth police station, a team led by sub-inspector…
Read updateIndia: With a gradual decline in the number of smuggling operatives entering the Seshachalam forests, the Red Sanders Anti Smuggling Task Force (RSASTF) has set its eyes on strengthening the plain area operations. This emerged as an offshoot from the recent amendments to A.P. Forest Act-1967, which has equipped the…
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Nepal: Acting on a tip-off, central investigation bureau of Nepal police, arrested three smugglers from Jadibuti, Kathmandu and detained a leopard skin from their possession on 19 September, 2016. The arrestees were identified as Tikaram Shrestha (40), Panchalal Tamang (30) both hailing from Panchkhal municipality,…
Read updateIndia: Two poachers, alleged to have been involved in the killing and illegal smuggling of one-horned rhinoceros parts from the Kaziranga National Park, were arrested by a team of Forest Department officials from Assam in Coonoor. They were assisted by personnel from the Tamil Nadu forest department. The two…
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India: Marine police of Coastal Security Group (CSG) have seized about 200 kg of sea endangered cucumbers, protected under Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, and detained a man, who procured the species from fishermen at the behest of smugglers. Acting on a tip-off, a special team, led by Jothi Basu and…
Read updateIndia: Twenty-five rose ringed parakeets that were kept in a cage and sold at Walayar in Coimbatore, close to Kerala border, were seized from a woman and two men who were selling it. Sale of the birds on the busy Palakkad Main Road was spotted by K. Sarath Kumar, a volunteer in Animal Rescuers – an NGO that is…
Read updateIndia: A most-wanted rhino poacher, who has killed more than 20 rhinos in last five years, was arrested from a remote village in Karbi Anglong district of Assam late last night. Police said today that a team of police personnel from neighboring Nagaon district made during a search operation. The arrested poacher has…
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