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India: 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…
Read updateIndia: Recovery of three more carcasses of rhinos sans horn during the last 24 has added to woes of the flood-ravaged Kaziranga National Park (KNP) prompting the state forest minister Promila Rani Brahma to tender an apology before the people of Assam. Park sources informed that a female rhino and its calf were…
Read updateIndia: A one-horned rhino cow and her calf were killed by poachers inside the Kaziranga National Park, said park official on Wednesday. Park officials recovered the carcasses of the female rhino and its calf on Wednesday morning from Bagori range of the park. "The horn of the female rhino was missing while the calf…
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