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India: Three men were arrested for allegedly hunting a pregnant deer in Rajasthan's Nagaur district, forest officials said Saturday. The accused hunted the animal in Kundlota village in the district on Thursday night. Locals caught the accused and informed the forest department, they said. Shivlal, Laxman and Umaram…
Read updateIndia: Pune Rural Police has arrested three people for smuggling leopard cubs. Police have recovered two leopard cubs of four months from the three accused persons. According to the information, during the checking of regular vehicles at 11 am, the police suspected the driver in an Innova and after checking, the two…
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South Asia Wildlife Enforcement Network (SAWEN) in collaboration with the Government of Nepal and WWF Nepal organized "Training on Wildlife Crime Detection to Armed Police Force of Nepal" on 15-17 May 2019 in APF Headquarter, Kathmandu, Nepal. The major objective of the training was to capacitate the APF Officials in…
Read updateNepal: Police arrested a person for the possession of red panda hide from a restaurant in Gongabu of Kathmandu Metropolitan City-26 on Thursday evening. Police have identified the arrestee as Rup Bahadur Budha (32) of Rara Municipality-12 in Mugu district, currently residing in Chapagaun of Lalitpur district. Acting…
Read updateIndia: Forest department officials on Wednesday seized tusks of an elephant from Narla forest range under Kalahandi North Division. Three persons were arrested for their alleged connection in the illegal trade. The arrested persons have been identified as Ishwar Bhoi, Samel Majhi, and Sindura Majhi. According to…
Read updateIndia: A person was detained in Gujarat on Thursday after a video surfaced in which a man was purportedly seen dragging an animal carcass behind his motorcycle apparently to lure a lion, a forest official said. Taking serious note of the incident, Chief Conservatorof Forests, Junagadh Wildlife Circle, D T Vasavada,…
Read updateIndia: Two “on the prowl” poachers and a sharpshooter were arrested in a joint operation by Darrang Police and staff of Orang National Park and Tiger Reserve. Darrang SP Amrit Bhuyan informed that the two poachers belonged to an “organised, armed gang of poachers”. The arrested poachers – Shamsher Ali and Moruz Ali –…
Read updateIndia: Five poachers were nabbed from Kuldiha reserve forest in Nilagiri of Balasore district and illegal arms seized from them, the police informed on Wednesday. Acting on reliable inputs about the presence of poachers, the forest department officials conducted a raid in the forest reserve and zeroed in on as many…
Read updateIndia: The Himachal Pradesh police have recovered two leopard skins from an individual in Himachal Pradesh's Chowari area on Monday. The accused has been arrested and a case has been registered under the Wildlife Protection Act. According to the police, a team of Chowari police station was on patrolling duty on…
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