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India: With Covid restricting activities, many people living near forests have turned into a problem for the forest department, as the number of poaching cases touches a record in Karnataka. However, Sirsi forest division, taking such activities in their stride, has formed six ‘Kaal Bhairava’ day/night patrol teams…
Read updateIndia: Kalmeshwar forestmen arrested two accused for carrying 2.50 kg flesh of wild boar, one dead Barnowls Tytonknae and one monitor lizard below the seats of an autorickshaw and seized the auto and materials used for the purpose on Monday. On a tip-off that one autorickshaw was going by carrying animals from Ghorad…
Read updateIndia: According to WCCB Jabalpur, during a special campaign against poaching and illegal trade of wildlife under the direction of In-charge officer of STF (Wildlife), Madhya Pradesh and Abhijit Roy Choudhary, Regional Deputy Director, WCCB Jabalpur, they received a tip-off that some persons were trying to sell…
Read updateIndia: The Haldia Forest Range official arrested a poacher from the Haldia forest area under Chandka Wildlife Division. The arrested has been identified as Dhaneshwar Jena (28) of Tangiapada in Khordha district. The forest officials seized deer skin and a motorcycle from his possession. According to forest…
Read updateIndia: Two days after the Chhattisgarh Police arrested a man with a rare pangolin species from Gariaband district, it confirmed that the suspected smuggler was also from Odisha’s Nuapada district, as were the two other alleged poachers who were arrested with pangolins nearly a fortnight ago. The police arrested…
Read updateIndia: Chhattisgarh police on June 27 reportedly arrested a smuggler from Gariyaband district for allegedly possessing a rare species of pangolin. According to ANI, the police received a tip-off that a resident of Nuapada district in Odisha was waiting for customers ti sell the Pangolin near Kulhadighat village…
Read updateIndia: Champawat police on Friday arrested two people for allegedly smuggling leopard skin. They were travelling in a car when police intercepted the vehicle near Chalti on Champawat-Tanakpur Road. Police then searched the Haryana number plate car and found two leopard skin, said Lokeswar Singh, superintendent of…
Read updateNepal: Nepal Police arrested a kingpin of illegal wild-life trade Kunjok Tshering Tamang, 50, aka Kunjok Lama, who was in the most-wanted list of police. Tamang was also in the ‘most-wanted’ list of INTERPOL for a long time. The Central Investigation Bureau arrested Tamang, a resident of Namkha Rural Municipality,…
Read updateIndia: Seven persons were arrested for allegedly smuggling two pangolins at Biloli in Maharashtra''s Nanded district, a forest official said on Wednesday. The Wildlife crime control board (WCCF) Mumbai found an advertisement about the sale of pangolins on social media, following which the forest authorities sent a…
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