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Two persons, along with an elephant tusk weighing 0.848 kilograms, were arrested in a joint operation launched by Nagaon South Division Forest Department, Hojai along with Murajhar police. The persons were apprehended from near Jaynagar Madrassa area in Hojai on Thursday. They have been identified as Abdullah Ahmed…
Read updateIndia: Continuing Operation Wildnet-3, a combined team of Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) Jabalpur and Tiger Strike Force, Madhya Pradesh Police nabbed three accused and seized a leopard skin and 2.3 kilograms scales of endangered specie pangolin from them in Waidhan in Singrauli district. The arrested have been…
Read updateIndia: The Range Forest Office, Collem and Range Forest Office, Ponda conducted a raid on six houses late Monday evening at Tatodi, Dharbandora and arrested six for poaching monitor lizards and seized around 9 kgs of meat. Ponda Forest Sub Divisional Officer, Anand Jadav said the first forest team arrested four while…
Read updateIndia: Forest officials on Thursday arrested Kumar alias Karuvadu Kumar (34) of Kannimala lower division in Munnar in connection with trapping and hunting of a leopard. He was arrested under Wildlife (Protection) Act 1972. The leopard was found dead inside Kannimala lower division in Munnar on August 8. According to…
Read updateIndia: Four juveniles were held and forwarded to court on charges of wildlife poaching, informed Rairakhol DFO Pradeep Kumar Sahu. Sahu said that the four minors were caught on Sunday by the forest officials while laying power lines for wildlife hunting. They were tested for COVID-19 and later were forwarded to…
Read updateIndia: The accused has been identified as S. Nandagopal, sources said. Acting on a tip off, a team led by P. Arumugam, Gudalur Range Officer conducted searches in the house of accused, which is located on Palanivel Pillai Street, and seized trophies, sources said. The team found a small piece of tusk, two nails of…
Read updateIndia: A man was arrested in Berhampur Monday evening for allegedly trying to sell a leopard skin. Acting on a tip-off the forest department officials with local police apprehended the person, Berhampur DFO Amlan Nayak said. The man, identified as P. Sushant Reddy, was arrested after the leopard skin was found on his…
Read updateIndia: Police have arrested a smuggler named Sandeep from Kasta town under Mitauli police station area in L Khiampur Khiri district. Police have recovered two double-handed snakes of rare species from his possession. He was going to deliver these. But the police caught him red-handed. The police had received secret…
Read updateIndia: The forest officials have arrested two poachers from Badamala range forest in Sambalpur district during a raid in here. Acting on reliable inputs about the presence of the accused persons in the forest, the officials reached the forest and conducted a raid. During the raid, the officials apprehended the…
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