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India: The Palghar police seized two snakes of endangered Sandboa (Mandul) species. The officials have arrested two persons who were in possession of the snakes and were to sell them for use in medicinal and black magic purposes. The arrested accused was identified as Sunil Shanavas (46) and Pawan Bhoya (39), both…
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The SAWEN Secretariat in collaboration with the Government of Maldives organized the Fifth Executive Committee (EC) Meeting of SAWEN on 26 March 2019 in Malé, Maldives. The major objective of the regular meeting was to discuss on national and regional prospects in illegal wildlife trade and combating measures applied…
Read updateIndia: A Forest Department team arrested Sindhu, 57, known as Kolkata Thankachi, an accused in the Idamalayar elephant poaching case from Kolkata on Tuesday. Her son Ajeesh, 38, was arrested from a hotel in Thiruvananthapuram. Sindhu’s husband Sudheesh Chandra Babu and daughter Amritha were arrested earlier by the…
Read updateIndia: Seven men were nabbed for smuggling an Indian Pangolin, an endangered species.The Panvel range forest mobile squad laid a trap on the old Pune highway near Khalapur on Tuesday and nabbed the men. However the mammal was found dead inside the gunny bag. Officer PV Marle said, “After receiving a tip-off about a…
Read updateIndia: Three persons from Sikkim and one from Bengal have been arrested by foresters of Baikanthapur Division of North Bengal for smuggling Pangolin scales to Bhutan. The foresters had received information that Pangolin scales were being smuggled to Bhutan. "From early in the morning we positioned ourselves at Rongpu…
Read updateIndia: The seized wildlife species will be sent back to Bangkok. TG337.The Horned Pit Viper is an African venomous snake and there is no anti venom available in India for it. Egyptian Tortoise is a critically endangered species and is endemic to Egypt and Libya.The wildlife species were seized under the provisions of…
Read updateIndia: The Forest CID team nabbed two people here on Sunday evening while they were attempting to sell an elephant tusk. The accused Poonacha of Bollumadu village, a writer in the coffee estate and K M Ganesh, a jeweller from Virajpet, were planning to sell the tusk to a jeweller in Shivamogga. Based on reliable…
Read updateIndia: The Khatkhati police foiled a bid to smuggle an elephant tusk and arrested two smugglers along Assam-Nagaland border in East Karbi Anglong. According to reports, acting on a tip-off, the police succeeded in nabbing the two smugglers from Khatkhati Kaliram Basti and seized the 12-inch long ivory tusk weighing…
Read updateIndia: According to the reports, based on intelligence input, the police and forest department personnel jointly launched an operation at Mayang area near Pobitora wildlife sanctuary in Morigaon district and recovered the arms from a suspected rhino poacher house last night. Security personnel recovered two 303…
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