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India: A team Assam Forest Department and police officers on Friday night arrested seven people in the Kohora area of Kaziranga National Park and recovered a large quantity of tiger skin and body parts from them. Kaziranga officials said two persons were first arrested after a vehicle, based on intelligence inputs,…
Read updateIndia: Golfer Jyoti Randhawa was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly poaching in a forest range in Bahraich district of Uttar Pradesh, known for its variety of endangered species, officials said. The international golfer and national shooter Mahesh Virajdar were arrested in Motipur range of Katerniaghat, said Ramesh…
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South Asia Wildlife Enforcement Network (SAWEN) in collaboration with the Government of Bhutan, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), WWF Nepal and US Department of State’s South Asia Regional Environment Office successfully organized a ‘Regional workshop on the prosecution of serious forms of wildlife…
Read updateIndia: Six months after pangolin scales were seized by the forest department in Mahanadi wildlife division, the Special Task Force (STF) of Crime Branch on Saturday seized two pangolins at Ambadiha in Mayurbhanj district and arrested four persons for trying to smuggle the mammals. Acting on a tip off, the STF…
Read updateIndia: A pair of elephant tusks weighing 15 kg was seized from suspected smugglers at Ennore on Tuesday. Four suspects have been detained in the connection. A police team intercepted a bike-borne duo on suspicion during night patrol around Poonamallee on Monday. On questioning, police found Vasanth, 28, of Porur, and…
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South Asia Wildlife Enforcement Network (SAWEN) supported to organize a ‘Reconciling human-wildlife interface in Kangchenjunga Landscape: Regional Dialogue for Action’ on 9-11 December 2018 in Siliguri, India. It was organized by West Bengal Forest Directorate and International Centre for Integrated Mountain…
Read updateIndia: One person was arrested from Diamond Harbour town on Monday night during a joint raid by the state forest department and Wildlife Crime Control Bureau for selling paint brushes made of mongoose hair. All six species of mongoose are protected under Schedule II part II of Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972. The fur…
Read updateIndia: The Mumbra police arrested three people for possessing 10 sambar deer antlers and 53-inch skin of a spotted deer. Mohammed Taufik Mohammed Israel Saudagar, 27, Shaikh Taufik Shaikh Nasir, 22 and Rizwan Ahmed Rajik Ahmed, 23, had brought the skin and horn from Amravati. D Swami, deputy commissioner of police,…
Read updateIndia: Deer horns and skin were seized and three people arrested, the police said on Friday. The seizure was made on November 28 night, and the accused hail from Amravati in the Vidarbha region, D.S. Swami, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone I), said at a press conference. He said acting on a tip-off that some…
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