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India: 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…
Read updatePakistan: 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…
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