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India: Sleuths of Mahanadi Wildlife Division have arrested two poachers from Baisipalli Sanctuary. Meat of a barking deer and bikes were seized from their possession. The poachers were identified as Mahendra Mallik of Talabari (a village located within the sanctuary) and Ghadu Pradhan of Madhyakhand. On a tip-off…
Read updateIndia:Two people were arrested on charges of possessing a nine feet long leopard skin in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal. The accused identified as Kalu Singh Biswakarma, a poacher, and Arjun Kumar Rasaily, an agent, are of Bhutanese origin. Acting upon a tip-off, forest officials of Balecoba range apprehended the…
Read updateIndia: The Forest officials in the distruct have arrested four persons, who were trying to smuggle an Indian Star Tortoise, a rare and protected variety of tortoise.The officials arrested the accused from Kilimanoor outside the city based on a tip off by the intelligence wing of the department.All the accused hail…
Read updateIndia: Authorities of Kaziranga National Park, about 250 km from here, foiled rhino poaching attempt by killing one of the poachers on Saturday morning. A three-member poachers' gang sneaked into the park's Agaratoli forest range on Friday late evening. Park officials said they had intelligence inputs about the…
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Nepal: Police here have arrested one person with the hide of the endangered Red Panda. Police arrested Bikas BK, (21) of Dang, Tulsipur. BK is currently living in Jorpati Kathmandu. A team of Metropolitan Police Crime Division nabbed him from Chabahil, Kathmandu on Wednesday. Police have forwarded him to the District…
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India: A man has been sentenced to three years imprisonment for possessing two leopard skins by a Delhi court, which said such cases need to be dealt with strictly to curb wildlife offences. The court said, "Some of the rare species have already been wiped out" while "others have reached danger mark predicting total…
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India: Madhya Pradesh lost two of its big cats on Saturday. A tigress was found dead in Kanha National Park (KNP) at Mandla and a leopard allegedly lynched by villagers in Gwalior district. The tigress, according to KNP officials, was 13-month-old and had multiple wounds on its body. Its carcass was found during a…
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India: The Chittoor police on Thursday booked notorious red sanders smuggler Markondan Lakshmanan (38) from Kolkata under the Preventive Detention (PD) Act following orders from the District Collector, and shifted him from Chittoor district jail to Kadapa Central Jail. He was arrested by the Nindra police in recent…
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Nepal: Police arrested two men in possession of four hides and bones of leopard from near Aayat bazaar in Amargadhi-3 on Thursday morning. Police said that a joint team from Regional Police Investigation Bureau and the District Police Office (DPO), acting on a tip off, arrested Ram Bahadur Thapa Magar of and Kam…
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