Wildlife Crime News
Selected wildlife crime reporting from external publishers, clearly attributed and linked to its original source.
India: Forest officials in north Bengal seized large quantity of snake venom after the Crime Control Bureau of Bengal Forest Department unearthed a mega racket operating in and around Kolkata and North 24 Parganas district of the state. One such incident came to light from the district of North 24 Parganas in Bengal.…
Read updateIndia: An elephant was shot dead by poachers near Ammatti in Kodagu district in the early hours of Monday. The 20-year-old animal was shot using a rifle from close range in a coffee plantation. An official said the carcass of the animal was found at the plantation in the evening. It may have died of gunshot wounds.…
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India: As many as 4,000 tiny red-eared tortoises were caught by the customs officials at the city airport for the second time this month, when a passenger was trying to smuggle them from Malaysia to Chennai on Saturday night. Customs officials said that on Saturday night during a routine passengers profiling, one…
Read updateBangladesh: Detectives in a drive arrested six people along with a tiger skin in Koyra upazila of Khulna last night. The arrestees were identified as Abul Kalam, 44, Sohrab, 42, Abdur Rab, 63, Jamal, 33, Masum Billah, 29, and Golam Rabbani, 24. They are all from Koyra. Tipped off, a team of Detective Branch of police…
Read updateIndia: Over 150 star tortoises were confiscated from the suitcase of a passenger at Chennai Central station on Tuesday. The man, however, managed to escape. Railway police sources said that he entered the concourse through the main entrance and was asked to place his suitcase at the baggage scanner. While it was…
Read updateIndia: In a joint drive, City Police and CID personnel busted a rhino horn syndicate and seized a horn late last night. Five persons were arrested in this connection from the Satgaon area. The arrested persons are Md Babul Ali (Satgaon), Badrul Haq (Sonapur), Muzammil Ali (Chamota), Zehirul Ali (Sonapur) and Tafikur…
Read updateIndia: In a prized catch, an international smuggler based in China, K.A. Dawood Jagir alias Jakir, 52, involved in 57 cases, and his cousin and aide Firoz Dastagir were arrested and 190 red sanders logs weighing five tonnes were seized by Kadapa district police at Akepadu Crossroads on Rajampet-Rayachoti Road in…
Read updateIndia: The Piler rural police in the early hours of Wednesday nabbed two smuggling operatives from Tamil Nadu at a forest location close to Kotakadapalle village of Yerravaripalem mandal, 70 km from here, and seized about one tonne of red sanders logs worth over Rs 1.5 crore in the international market, and an SUV at…
Read updateIndia: Forest Department staff displaying the seized sea cucumbers in Ramanathapuram on Wednesday. Photo: L. Balachandar A day after seizing 200 kg of endangered sea cucumbers, protected under Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, Marine Police of Coastal Security Group (CSG) seized 20 kg of the endangered…
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