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India: A person was arrested for attempting to smuggle a pangolin abroad from Jalpaiguri, West Bengal. A pangolin was rescued from a village adjoining Baikunthapur forest in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal and a poacher was arrested in this connection, forest officials said on Wednesday. Acting on a tip-off, the…
Read updateIndia: State forest department has arrested two persons for allegedly hunting a langur (Presbytis entellus) in the forest area of Junnar in Pune district. The accused have been identified as Eknath Gopal Aswale (29) and Ganpat Shimge Hilam (40), both residents of Junnar taluka. A press release issued by the forest…
Read updateIndia: Forest officials of Motu Range on Thursday busted an inter-State turtle smuggling racket and arrested four persons from MPV-83 and MPV-42 within MV-79 police limits. As many as 43 live Indian softshell turtles were recovered from their possession. Acting on a tip-off, a team of Motu Forest Range officials…
Read updateNepal: A team of Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police has arrested a man involved in poaching Namobuddha, the country’s first tiger fitted with a Global Positioning System (GPS)-enabled satellite collar. Lal Bahadur aka Raj Bahadur, a local resident of Hariharpur VDC in Surkhet district, had been on the…
Read updateIndia: A man was arrested by the forest department on Wednesday night for allegedly attempting to poach wild animals in the Sanjay Gandhi National Park. A Tulsi range official got a tip-off that armed poachers were in the forest. “We made two teams of five each and reached the spot between Dahisar and Tulsi lake.…
Read updateIndia: Wildlife poachers seem to be taking advantage of the ongoing lockdown. Six of them were arrested for poaching a civet cat and a monitor lizard from Aamghat forest area under Butibori forest range. The accused have been identified as Akash Jagtap, Ramnath Sawant, Sundarlal Shinde, Anil Shinde, Tanaji Jagtap amd…
Read updateNepal: Police arrested two smugglers with two muskets from Banke National Park area on Tuesday night. The arrested have been identified as Kul Bahadur Oli and Himlal Khatri of Dangisaran Rural Municipality, Dang. The park’s Chief Conservation Officer Pramod Bhattarai said a team of Nepali Army took the smugglers…
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The Sixth Executive Committee (EC) Meeting of South Asia Wildlife Enforcement Network (SAWEN) was organized by SAWEN in collaboration with the Government of Sri Lanka on 4-5 March 2020 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The Sixth EC Meeting is continuation of previous EC Meeting conducting regularly since October 2016. The First…
Read updateNepal: Police on Monday arrested four persons reportedly involved in trafficking of red panda hides from Budhanilkantha Municipality-12 in Kathmandu district. The arrested have been identified as Surya Bahadur Bhujel (39) of Balajor in Tinpatan Rural Municipality-6, Sindhuli district; Suk Bahadur Lama (40) of Jhapre…
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