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India: Forest department personnel have arrested a person from Tamil Nadu, for poaching and illegally entering Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary, on Tuesday night. They also seized deer meat that was in his possession. The arrested is Shakti from Natarapalya, Krishnagiri district, Tamil Nadu. Acting on a tip-off, officers…
Read updateIndia: The Piler Rural police on Wednesday nabbed one Uyyala Subramanyam alias Bithhalodu (30), a wanted red sanders smuggling operative from the Bodevandlapalle forest area near Piler. A native of Pulibonupalle in YV Palem mandal, the accused has allegedly smuggled over 100 tonnes of red sanders in the last 17…
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Global: A month-long police and customs cross border operation (14 September - 11 October 2020) resulted in large seizures of protected wildlife and forestry specimens and products, triggering arrests and investigations worldwide. Focusing on pre-identified routes and hotspots, Operation Thunder 2020 resulted in more…
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Bangladesh: A mobile court on Friday sentenced four people to one year in jail for poaching a number of birds of different species at Itkhola in Savar on the outskirts of the capital. The court run by Wildlife Crime Control Unit (WCCU) and Rapid Action Battalion gave the punishment to the four and rescued 710 birds…
Read updateNepal: A female rhino and her calf were found dead with their horns missing inside Chitwan National Park on Tuesday evening. A team of park officials found the decomposed bodies of the mother and baby rhino in the western part of the park. “We conducted postmortem of the decayed bodies on Wednesday. Poachers had…
Read updateIndia: A special team of the Tuticorin police involved in a hunt for ganja peddlers seized four tusks from a duo on Tuesday. The accused have been identified as G Rajavel, 33, of George Road and M Muniyasami, 43, of Ganesan Colony, Tuticorin. Superintendent of police S Jayakumar said a special team on the lookout for…
Read updateBangladesh: Wildlife Crime Control Unit (WCCU) rescued a male Pangolin weighing nine kgs and approximately 12 years old from a house of Md. Shahjahan of Dakurail, Kaliakair, Gazipur. Talking to the local people, it was known that the Pangolin has been coming and going in that area for about two months. Some curious…
Read updateIndia: The Customs Air Intelligence unit officials at Chennai Airport seized 23.5kg of processed shark fins that were being smuggled to Dubai by two passengers. Senior officials said that this was the first seizure of wildlife products since the COVID-19 induced lockdown and that the last seizure of shark fins were…
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Bangladesh: One accused was arrested along with a gecko was from the Signboard area by Siddhirganj police station of Narayanganj district. The gecko was about 15 inches long and weight 269 grams. It is learned that the gecko was being collected from Bandarban and taken to a vendor in Munshiganj. The rescued Gecko was…
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