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India: Crime branch arrested a man with two Australian turtles in the city on Sunday. The man was allegedly trying to sell the turtles for some witchcraft activities. The person from whom he bought the turtles is being searched by the crime branch. On the instruction from DIG Manish Kapooria, a team of crime branch…
Read updateIndia: Raikia forest outfit in Kandhamal district has caught a poacher red-handed while he was setting fire to poach wildlife inside Badamaha forest today. Forest sources said that a poacher, identified as Mitu Pradhan, was lighting fire inside Badamaha forest range under Raikia division to poach wildlife. However,…
Read updateIndia: A joint team of Uttarakhand Special Task Force (STF), wildlife crime control bureau and forest department held four members of a gang with eight kilograms of elephant tusks from Kashipur road in Rudrapur on Wednesday evening. The accused have been identified as Shamsher Singh, Surjeet Singh and Shravan Kumar,…
Read updateIndia: Skins of Schedule I species including Himalayan Black Bear have been seized in Arunachal Pradesh’s Dirang district by the sleuths of Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), SSB and Police. Acting on specific input, a team of WCCB and SSB conducted a raid on Tuesday at the house of Dorjee Letro in Sangti village…
Read updateIndia: As many as 11 migratory birds were found dead in Jamukhari under Chandwara police station limits in Koderma, officials said on Monday. “We found a bottle of poison beside the carcasses and we suspect that the birds were poisoned to death by some unidentified poachers,” divisional forest officer Suraj Kumar…
Read updateIndia: Wildlife enforcement agencies on Tuesday morning seized three endangered wild animal species, suspected to be smuggled from Amazon Rainforest in Brazil in upper Assam’s Golaghat district.The forest officials rescued one pair of Macao, four Silvery Marmosets and one pair of Golden-headed Tamarin. The Silvery…
Read updateIndia: Additional sessions judge Cholu Gauns on Friday granted anticipatory bail to Gregory Bruno Fernandes and Blevia Fernandes. They were arrested for illegal captivity of protected species of birds and animals at their open hall in Varca. Forest officials had seized a Malabar giant squirrel, white-bellied sea…
Read updateIndia: Police have arrested five people, including two police officials and a government school teacher, in connection with the seizure of a tiger’s skin in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar district, an official said on Sunday. With this, a total of 13 people have so far been arrested in connection with the tiger skin seizure…
Read updateIndia: While Odisha is struggling to contain forest fires across the State, as many as three persons were arrested by the forest department personnel on Saturday for allegedly setting a fire at the Mundeswar Forest Range in the district. Acting on a tip off, a special squad of the forest department raided some…
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