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India: The forest personnel of Nameri National Park and Tiger Reserve nabbed a poacher who tried to enter the park on Saturday evening. The poacher has been identified as Deji Khaklari. “As a poachers’ group tried to enter the Nameri National Park and Tiger Reserve, the alert forest team of the park, under the…
Read updateIndia: Odisha wildlife department officials have seized three leopard skins and arrested four young men in Nabarangpur district for allegedly being involved in smuggling. Chief wildlife warden HS Upadhyay said a team of wildlife officials of Nabarangpur district intercepted two vehicles at different places on…
Read updateIndia: In another man-animal conflict, a man and his wife were injured in wild boar attack at Barakandha village under Mahakalapada Forest Range in Kendrapada district on Wednesday. The locals later nabbed the boar and lynched it to death.Following the incident, forest personnel seized 30 kg boar meat which was set…
Read updateIndia: Periya Range forest officials have arrested four persons from Mananthavady for keeping in their possession elephant tusks weighing 20kg and trying to sell them. The arrested are Vinod,30, Raghavan,39, Raju,34, and Gopi, 38 -- all from Kattiyeri Colony. The forest officials had found a one-and-a-half-year-old…
Read updateIndia: The district forest department on Friday confiscated several species of wildlife animals, whose sale is prohibited under the Wildlife Protection Act, from a pet shop in Noida’s Sector 93. The department has registered a police complaint and the seller, 45-year-old Prashant Kumar, was arrested. Among the…
Read updateIndia: Forest department officials today arrested a poacher and seized leopard skin from his possession near Bisoi under Rairangpur forest division limits, Forest department sources said. The poacher has been identified as Laxman Nayak, a resident of Khajurikatas village under Bisoi police station limits, the sources…
Read updateIndia: Kenichira police in Wayanad have arrested three people for allegedly stealing camera traps installed in vested forests under Chethalath range for tiger monitoring. The camera traps had caught the trio poaching a deer. The accused have been identified as Sumesh (41), hailing from Padichira; Rajesh (32), hailing…
Read updateIndia: A hog deer poacher was apprehended by a forest team from Bagoribari village in Darrang district of Assam on Tuesday morning, official sources informed. Three other poachers however managed to give the team, comprising employees of the Katasali and Chandanpur camps of the national park, a slip. Based on a…
Read updateIndia: An organised Pangolin Wildlife poaching and smuggling racket was busted by the Telangana Forest officials in the Kawal Tiger Reserve forest of Adilabad. According to the Adilabad Circle CFO C P Vinod Kumar, on the tip-off, a team headed by DFO Mancherial and Asifabad has investigated the racket and arrested 10…
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