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India: The Gangnehar police team nabbed three poachers and rescued two tortoises from them on late Monday night. A case has been registered under Section 51 of the Wildlife Protection Act 1972. The car carrying the tortoises was also impounded by the cops. The investigation is on, said police. Speaking to The…
Read updateIndia: Customs officials at Chennai airport seized 2,300 baby turtles from the baggage of a passenger who arrived from Bangkok on a Thai Airways flight on Thursday. The live turtles were found in six cartons. Wild life Crime Control Bureau certified the turtles as red-eared sliders, an exotic species of foreign…
Read updateIndia: Forest personnel have seized about 100 kg of processed sea cucumber, protected under Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act, after arresting three persons in Kilakarai on Friday. Acting on intelligence reports, a team of forest personnel, led by Sikkandar Basha, Forest Range Officer, Kilakarai range, raided…
Read updateIndia: The Thane Crime Branch Friday arrested three persons and seized an adult Indian pangolin, an endangered mammal, a police official said. Acting on a tip-off, sleuths of the Crime Branch Unit 1 kept a vigil at Saket Bridge in the Rabodi area since Thursday night and nabbed the trio when they arrived to sell the…
Read updateIndia:Three persons, two natives of Pilibhit district and one from Uttarakhand, were arrested on Tuesday midnight by a team led by DFO, North Kheri, Anil Patel with more than 2,000 parakeets. Forest officials said the trio was involved in interstate poaching and smuggling of birds, especially of different types of…
Read updateIndia: A team from the Chitwan National Park (CNP) has arrested a fugitive who was convicted of poaching an endangered one-horned rhino from the CNP four years ago. The team apprehended Ishwori Prasad Mahato of Kawasoti Municipality-10 in Nawalparasi district on Thursday. Assistant Conservation Officer Nurendra Aryal…
Read updateNepal: Police in Dolakha have arrested two people in possession of pangolin scales. Arjun Devkota, 23, and Saurabh Gole, 19, of Kamalamai Municipality-3 in Sindhuli were arrested along with pangolin scales weighing 2.9 kilograms. Pangolin is a protected wildlife species. The two were arrested from Bhimeshwor…
Read updateIndia: Two suspected rhino poachers were killed in an encounter with Special Task Force of police in central Assam's Morigaon district early on Tuesday, police said. A STF team went to Sitalmari char near Orang Wildlife Sanctuary in adjacent Darrang district based on specific input of rhino poachers taking shelter…
Read updateIndia: Forest officials on Monday nabbed three poachers in the reserve forest of Shiroda seizing from them 7 kg of civet cat meat, a locally-made pistol, bullets and copper. The poachers have been identified as Ulhas Velip (38), Chandrakant Velip (38) – both residents of Padi Canacona – and Gurudas Gaonkar (51) of…
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