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SAWEN in collaboration with Department of National Parks and Wildlife (DNPWC) and National Trust for Nature Conservation (NTNC) successfully organized a three day "Wildlife Law Enforcement Training for Armed Police Force (APF) Nepal" from June 13-15, 2016 in Kathmandu, Nepal. The major aim of the training was to…
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India:Sullurpet police arrested a red sanders smuggler and seized Rs 44 lakh worth logs, vehicles from his possession. District Superintendent of Police Vishal Gunni while interacting with media persons on Wednesday said that they deployed teams for nabbing another person who was involved in the crime. According to…
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Nepal: Chitwan National Park today marked zero poaching year at a programme to celebrate the fact that the park has not witnessed a single case of wildlife poaching for two consecutive years. A joint conservation operation section was established to make wildlife conservation effective at a programme organised to…
Read updateIndia: The mobile squad of the Forest Department, on Friday, arrested a woman from Hosodi in Shivamogga, and recovered 22 tiger nails from her. The arrested has been identified as Baroli (45). The police took the accused into custody while she was looking for customers to purchase the nails she had been carrying…
Read updateIndia: About 93 kgs of pangolin scales were seized from a person in Champhai town along Mizoram-Myanmar border, police said today. The scales were recovered from one C Thanga (38) yesterday and he was arrested. The seized pangolin scales are worth around Rs 20 lakh in the local market and were suspected to be…
Read updateIndia: A Chinkara was killed by poachers on the Ramgarh-Jaisalmer road, about 50 off Jaisalmer on Tuesday night when the animal was drinking water from a leak in the water supply line. Later, poachers have peeled its skin. By the time other vehicles reached the spot, the poachers had escaped. The wildlife department…
Read updateIndia: Two men were arrested by forest officials in Tiruppattur in Vellore district on Wednesday for selling musk deer pods. Vellore district forest officer S Kalanithi told TOI that after receiving specific information about the sale, a field operative of TRAFFIC, a wildlife crime prevention organisation, tracked…
Read updateIndia: In combing operations to apprehend red sanders smugglers, police and forest officials seized 18 logs of red sanders near Seshachalam forest area on Tuesday. Eight labourers who were engaged by smugglers to transport the logs were arrested. While some of the labourers reportedly ran away, among those who were…
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Global: Wildlife authorities in Thailand have found 40 tiger cubs in a freezer during a police raid on Tiger Temple, a tourist attraction that has faced repeated allegations of animal trafficking. The discovery occurred after officials from the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP),…
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