Wildlife Crime News
Selected wildlife crime reporting from external publishers, clearly attributed and linked to its original source.
Pakistan: A judicial magistrate on Saturday remanded three Chinese nationals and nine Pakistanis to the prison for 14 days for allegedly smuggling freshwater, black pond turtles. The court also allowed the Sindh Wildlife Department to immediately release the confiscated turtles into their habitat. The accused,…
Read updateIndia: Two Myanmarese poachers who had intruded into one of the remote islands of Andaman And Nicobarhave been arrested, Andaman police said today. Last month the union territory's police received inputs about sighting of a foreign dinghy with some foreigner occupants near the coastline of Interview Island, which has…
Read updateGlobal: Latest report released by IUCN has said that Myanmar has emerged as the most important route for smuggling out rhino-horns from the state en route to China. Cross-border trade into Myanmar has become the primary route for rhino horns from Assam, with the horns finally finding their way to China through Kachin…
Read updateIndia: The seized 39-inch sand boa weighs up to740 grams and is worth Rs 30 lakh. (HT File Photo) Thane crime branch officials have, in the past week, arrested two people for alleged illegal trafficking of sand boa snake and one for smuggling elephant tusk. While those accused of trafficking sand boa are residents of…
Read updateIndia: Five poachers, including a sharpshooter from Manipur, who were about to kill a rhino at Orang National Park, were arrested by forest officials and police on Sunday evening. Mangaldoi wildlife divisional forest officer Sunnydeo Choudhury said the poachers had planned to sneak into Orang, located on the northern…
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India: Forest officials Monday seized two Royal Bengal Tiger (RBT) hides and arrested a person while he was trying to sell them. The accused was identified as Sundar Dhamra of Sargiguda village in Vejaguda panchayat under Mathili forest range in this district. According to forest officials, the price of the hides was…
Read updateIndia: Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested two persons for allegedly trafficking tiger parts and recovered two skins, skulls and other parts of the endangered animal from them. Panna Lal Khatik, a resident of Siliguri in West Bengal, and Anil, hailing from Samalkha in Haryana, were arrested by the…
Read updateIndia: Police seized around 400kg of red sanders from a house in Mannadi during a raid and arrested a man who was concealing the goods on Friday. The raid was conducted after a tip about red sanders being kept in a house on Krishnan Kovil Street. The police team arrested Nawab Ali and have launched a search for his…
Read updateIndia: The Tirupati police on Thursday raided some godowns in Pondur village in Sri Perambadur taluk of Kanchipuram district, near Chennai and seized 395 red sanders logs weighing around 9.5 tons. According to Rayalaseema region Inspector General of Police, N Sridhar Rao, a team of Tirupati urban police raided a…
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