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India: Four men suspected to be poachers were apprehended by the state forest department on the southern boundary of Corbett Tiger Reserve (CTR) on Wednesday. A net, an axe and nylon ropes were recovered from them. The men have been booked under Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. (Source: The Times of India)
Read updateIndia: The Thane crime branch has arrested two people for allegedly possessing a pangolin, an endangered animal. Based on a tip-off, the police arrested Virar resident Sagar Pawar (33) and Raigad resident Abdul Jalil Yunus Mahamrut (54) from Dahisar Mori area on the Mumbra-Panvel highway. The Shil-Daighar police have…
Read updateIndia: Assam police arrested three rhino poachers from Amoni area in Nagaon district on Wednesday evening.The police also seized one vehicle and incriminating documents from the possession of the poachers. The arrested poachers are identified as Abdul Ali, Irfan Ali, Ahazuddin. The operation was carried out by police…
Read updateIndia: A 47-year-old man was caught trying to poach spotted deer and wild rabbits in the Mettur reserve forest on Friday. He was, however, let off with a fine of Rs 1 lakh. According to forest officials attached to the Mettur forest range, they found G Manickam, of Nattamangalam near Mettur, enter the reserve forest…
Read updateIndia: Security guards of the University of Hyderabad (UoH) on Wednesday chased and caught 12 persons as they were trying to flee with the carcass of a brown hare. However, three accused managed to escape. The black-napped hare or the Indian brown hare is very common on UoH campus and recently, poaching is posing a…
Read updateIndia: Forest officials on Thursday arrested six persons for killing a leopard by using a snare in Mancherial forest of Luxittepet range on January 14, after a sniffer dog identified one of them. Mancherial forest divisional officer J Venkateswara Rao told TOI, “Poachers set up a snare using a bike clutch wire to…
Read updateIndia: Four persons trying to sell a red sand boa snake have been caught in a trap and arrested by forest officials in a joint operation with Peoples For Animals (PFA), Wardha unit, near Gopuri Square on Tuesday. Ashish Goswami, A PFA activist, said they came to know that a group in the city was trying to sell a red…
Read updateIndia: Four persons were arrested in West Bengal on Tuesday in connection with illegal smuggling of 689 endangered Indian soft-shell river turtles. An official said after getting a tip off, a team of CID apprehended Lachman Kumar, 30, Raj Kumar, 25, Sushil Kumar, 20, and Raju Kumar, 30, hailing from Sultanpur…
Read updateIndia: Acting on a tip-off, a special squad of forest personnel arrested six poachers while the latter were laying livewires for poaching boars at Kutulisinga reserve forest under Dhandatopa range in Angul district. The accused were identified as Narendra Nayak (24), Ramju Nayak (49), Panchanan Nayak (42) of…
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