News & updates
Official SAWEN updates and clearly attributed wildlife crime reporting from external publishers.
India: 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…
Read update
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…
Read update
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.…
Read update
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 update