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India: The STF of the Odisha Crime Branch on Friday arrested one more member of an international wildlife crime syndicate for his involvement in smuggling of pangolin scales. Mohammed Jamshed (42) was arrested from Khaja Street, Berhampur. On June 19 last year, a person named Samsuddin Khan was arrested from Begunia…
Read updateIndia: Four persons were arrested by sleuths of Wildlife Crime Control Bureau, Forest Department and TRAFFIC, a wildlife trade monitoring network, for allegedly transporting of a tiger’s skin in Echoda mandal on Saturday. They were produced before the media in Adilabad on Saturday. Skin of the carnivore was seized…
Read updateIndia: A pastor attached to a church in Krishnagiri of Tamil Nadu has landed behind bars in Chikkamagaluru after he was caught by the forest squad while he was trying to sell a fake tiger pelt made out of a calf's skin. Interestingly, the pastor took to deceiving people to raise funds for the church. A spotted deer…
Read updateIndia: Three Bhutanese citizens were arrested in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district with an illegal consignment of a rhino horn and an elephant tusk, an official said on Sunday. Acting on a tip-off, forest officials conducted a search operation in Dooars area on Saturday and arrested the accused along with the rhino…
Read updateIndia: A team of official led by Beat Officer, Jeepghat Beat under Anchalghat Range Dy. FR, Orin Perme arrested five dreaded hunters from Sanyasi Tukura under Anchalghat Range on Saturday morning at the D. Ering Memorial Wildlife Sanctuary here in East Siang District of Arunachal Pradesh. The arrest was made after…
Read updateIndia: Three poachers were caught red-handed laying traps for herbivorous animals in forests of Mailani range in the buffer zone of Dudhwa Tiger Reserve, officials said Sunday. "The poachers were caught red-handed late on Saturday night when they were laying half a dozen 'khabars' (nets used to trap spotted deer,…
Read updateNepal: An investigation team from the District Police Office, Kailali, arrested a man in possession of a rhino horn from Dhangadhi Sub-metropolis on Tuesday. Chakra Bhandari, 51, was held with the horn weighing 1.29kg from Dhangadhi-5, Deputy Superintendent of Police Hari Bahadur Oli told media on Wednesday.…
Read updateIndia: In a joint operation, carried out by Forest officials and police, three poachers were nabbed at 2 No Bahikhowa villages in Bokakhat of Assam’s Golaghat district along with arms and ammunition on Wednesday night. Arms, ammunition and other equipment seized from the poachers. Photo: Northeast Now According to…
Read updateIndia: Even as dust on tiger deaths in Umred-Karhandla Wildlife Sanctuary is yet to settle, tiger and leopard skins were seized by forest officials in two separate incidents in the region. In the first case, a tiger skin was seized by Melghat Tiger Reserve (MTR) officials near Chikhaldara on Monday night. Six persons…
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