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This is to share that the Federal Cabinet of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan endorsed the Statute of SAWEN on 15th July 2016. This endorsement makes Pakistan the fourth formal member of SAWEN after Sri Lanka, India, and Nepal. With the endorsement by the four member countries, the SAWEN Statute now comes into effect…
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…
Read updateNepal: 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…
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