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India: The carcass of a three-year-old male leopard was found in the forests of Gohani village. A leopard was electrocuted by live wires laid down to keep away wild animals in Satna district. The body parts of the animal were intact. It was apparent that the carcass had been dumped in the forest after dragging it to…
Read updateIndia: A team of forest officials on Sunday arrested six persons in Digholdorioli area in Sivasagar district for electrocuting two wild Asian elephants. The accused have been identified as Ankur Gogoi, Bulbul Gogoi, Manoj Gogoi, Pankaj Gogoi, Amar Gogoi and Runjun Chetia. The incident occurred in Digholdorioli on…
Read updateIndia: A special party of the Andhra Pradesh State Red Sanders Anti-Smuggling Task Force (APSRSASTF) on Saturday seized a lorry loaded with as many as 227 logs of B-grade red sanders, near Pichatur, on Chennai NH. Deputy SP (Task Force) K. Venkatiah told mediapersons at Tirupati that acting on reliable information…
Read updateIndia: A team of the Forest Department said that on the basis of a tip-off, they had raided a village near Hunterganj town in Chatra district where a deer was killed and cooked on Tuesday night by eight youths. The foresters carried out the raid at all eight houses on Wednesday at Dalgoma village under Chakla…
Read updateIndia: Forest official Ganesh Sarode was called for assistance and the reptile was seized from the arrested man’s possession. The police arrested two men late on Sunday for smuggling a sand boa serpent,. The arrested men have been identified as Saurabh Jadhav (21), a resident of Pisoli in Haveli and Kalidas Chavan,…
Read updateIndia: The forest department arrested an anti-poaching watcher and five others at Pollachi on Tuesday for attempting to sell a pair of tusks. After receiving a tip from Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) that tusks were sold at a pet shop in NM Sungam, Pollachi, two teams of the forest department and WCCB officials…
Read updateIndia: A team of Special Task Force (STF) of Odisha Crime Branch rescued a live pangolin and arrested one person near Biribati Canal Road in Kandarpur area of Cuttack district last evening. The arrested has been identified as Santosh Kumar Dalai of Gumutipur village in Dhiasahi of Jagatsinghpur. Based on reliable…
Read updateSix men were arrested for allegedly poaching four common cranes from Hiran-II dam at Umrethi village near Talal in Gir (west) wildlife division on Saturday. According to forest officers, two men riding a motorbike had an argument with a group of men in Lodhva village of Sutrapada taluka of Gir Somnath district early…
Read updateIndia: A wildlife smuggling racket was busted in Kapilash forest range with arrest of 3 poachers and seizure of huge quantity of wildlife products, Dhenkanal DFO informed today. Three poachers, who were arrested by the forest officials, have been identified as Lakshmidhar Murmu, Lakshman Soren and Kadu Kisku — all…
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