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India: The forest department, along with the wildlife crime control bureau (WCCB), arrested one person for illegally smuggling and selling a bag of leopard claws and teeth at Delhi’s Kashmere inter-state bus terminus (ISBT) on Friday. Aditya Madanpotra, deputy conservator of forests (north division), said acting on a…
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India: led by Balangir DFO Sameer Satpathy on Monday night seized a leopard skin by conducting a raid on a house in Kansar village in Balangir district and arrested a person. The arrested accused was identified as Biswamitra Rana. Based on a tipoff about wildlife smuggling underway for the past few days in Kansar…
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India: Two men were arrested from Rewari on Tuesday for allegedly selling genitals of male monitor lizards and jackals over the last four months through social media, in collaboration with a few astrologers in Delhi-NCR, to people with superstitious beliefs, the police said. The monitor lizard is a protected species…
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Bangladesh: After evading arrest for nearly 20 years, a “prolific” tiger poacher, charged with killing 70 animals, was taken into custody by the Bangladesh authorities on Saturday. Habib Talukder, 50, also known as Tiger Habib, was listed as the most wanted fugitive by both India and Bangladesh’s police and forest…
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The SAWEN Secretariat in collaboration with INTERPOL and USAID organized a four days training on 'Cyberspace Intelligence and Investigation to wildlife law enforcement officials in South Asia' on 5-8 April 2021. The virtually held training was delivered to investigation officials working in different government…
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The SAWEN Secretariat organized Seventh Executive Committee Meeting of SAWEN on 31 March 2021 in a virtual platform provided by INTERPOL in chairpersonship of Deepak Kumar Kharal, PhD, Chief Enforcement Coordinator of SAWEN. Principal and secondary focal persons and Secretariat staff were participated in the Meeting.…
Read updateIndia: After five days of search operation, forest officials in Uttarakhand have found both the tusks of a dead elephant on Tuesday. The first tusk was found from four poachers on March 17, while search for another was on. On Tuesday, four more poachers were nabbed with the second tusk from Rampur road. The tusk set…
Read updateIndia: On the basis of reliable information, Special Task Force (STF) team conducted a raid at Bonai Chhak, Barkote under Deogarh district about a deal of sale of Leopard Skin by wild life criminals, as a result of which two accused persons have been arrested. The arrested have been identified as Somanath Patra and…
Read updateIndia: The Chittoor police on Saturday seized 5.2 tonnes of red sanders logs along with a lorry and a car carrying the consignment, at Penumuru cross on the outskirts of Chittoor. The police nabbed four accused after giving them a chase. Superintendent of Police S. Senthil Kumar told presspersons that acting on a…
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