Wildlife Crime News
Selected wildlife crime reporting from external publishers, clearly attributed and linked to its original source.
Nepal: The Metropolitan Police Crime Division arrested four persons with nine red panda skins from Kapan, Kathmandu last week. It was the single biggest seizure of body parts of endangered wild animal. According to statistics of the Metropolitan Police Office, the law enforcement agency has confiscated as many as 70…
Read updateIndia: In three different operations, Marine Police of Coastal Security Group (CSG) and Forest Department personnel seized 338 kg of endangered sea cucumbers, protected under Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, and arrested one person, who procured them at the behest of smugglers. In a pre-dawn…
Read updateIndia: The Red Sanders Anti-Smuggling Task Force (RSASTF) personnel on Thursday recovered 58 red sanders logs from a dump in the forest under Karakambadi beat, 25 km from here. The logs weighing two tonnes are worth of Rs 40 lakh, according to Task Force DSP Sridhar Rao. Addressing a press conference here on…
Read updateIndia: Alert Gudiyattam forest range officials on Wednesday busted an illicit mongoose hair trade racket with the arrest of four persons. This is the first time in the State that such a racket has been unearthed. According to Vellore district forest officer Sumanth Soman, around 5.5 kg of hair poached from mongoose -…
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Nepal: Four persons were arrested in possession of as many as nine red panda hides from Kapan of Kathmandu on Wednesday. Sushil Rai (23) of Balamta-8 of Udayapur, Jeevan Gurung (24) of Dubekol VDC-8 in Khotang, Muskan Thapa (24) of Bhimgidi VDC-1 in Baglung, and Lal Bahadur Thing (32) of Sarikhet Palase VDC-5 of…
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India: Forest Department officials displaying seized sea cucumbers in Ramanathapuram on Tuesday. Marine Police of Coastal Security Group (CSG) have seized 25 kg of endangered sea cucumbers, protected under Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, and detained a person who was carrying them to supply them to…
Read updateIndia: CID wildlife forest cell officials raided Datta Peeta Ashram of Sri Sri Sri Guru Dutta Swamiji at Hoskerehalli and found skin of two blackbucks and three spotted deer. The forest cell said a case will be booked at Chennammanakere Achukattu police station. Blackbuck is an endangered species protected under…
Read updateIndia: Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) recovered 4.5 metric tonnes (MT) of red sanders logs worth Rs 3.15 crore, from Mundra port. The logs were being illegally exported and had been concealed in bags of rice. Acting on a tip-off from a unit, the DRI raided at Mundra and found the red sanders, said an…
Read updateIndia: At least three persons were arrested today by the forest personnel near Digapahandi in Ganjam district for allegedly poaching a pangolin. The forest personnel have seized an adult dead pangolin from them. The poachers were identified as Sukadeb Raita, Dhoba Raita and Jateswar Raita of Purunapani village in…
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