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India: Five men were arrested for hunting a deer for meat at Ponmalai area in Perianaickenpalayam forest range on Sunday. A team of forest department field staff and anti-poaching watchers had apprehended J Arul, J Durai, J Krishnan, J Velusamy and G Suren, all hailing from Gandhi Nagar at Thimmamapalayampudur near…
Read updateIndia: The Amravati sessions court has acquitted two tiger poachers — Bhajan Hotel Dhurve and Shiri alias Prakash Bisan Chavan (35) — in Dhakna tiger poaching case inside Melghat Tiger Reserve (MTR). Both the accused, belonging to Baheliya community from Katni in Madhya Pradesh, were convicted in January 2016 under…
Read updateIndia: Six people were arrested with carcasses of five civet cats — protected under Schedule II of the Wildlife Protection Act — at Chandapara station near Bongaon on Saturday evening. Local DFO Niranjita Mitra confirmed the development and said that the six accused, who are being questioned now, would be produced in…
Read updateIndia: A 35-year-old man was arrested with two leopard skins in Himachal Pradesh's Shimla district, police said Tuesday. Santokh Singh, a resident of Pumlaai in Kumarsain, was arrested Monday night from Rampur tehsil in the district, Superintendent of Police (SP), Shimla, Omapati Jamwal said. Two leopard skins were…
Read updateIndia:The forest department on Monday arrested one person involved in alleged smuggling and poaching of wildlife animals. The department has seized wildlife articles of four monitor lizards, one porcupine quill, two owlet nails and a sea fan. The teams had earlier arrested two persons in this connection and were…
Read updateIndia: The Marine police of the Coastal Security Group (CSG) have seized about 150 kg of sea cucumber, an endangered species, protected under Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act. A Marine police team, which was on regular patrolling in the Mandapam area, was checking the boats on Sunday when it found the…
Read updateIndia: A youth transporting 600 parrots stuffed in four iron cages kept on the roof of a Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (UPSRTC) bus was nabbed near Patel crossing in the Civil Lines area on Saturday night by a joint team of Kotwali police and forest department officials. An FIR was lodged against him…
Read updateIndia: A team of social forestry department on Sunday arrested a poacher from Tanda Bijesi village under Neuria police station after a video showing him killing a baby crocodile was widely circulated. This reptile is listed as protected in schedule-I of the Wildlife Protection Act and its poaching invites stringent…
Read updateIndia: Police have arrested one person with a leopard skin in Ghat, 30 km from Pithoragarh town. Acting on a tip-off, a team of the Special Operations Group and the forest department stopped a person at Ghat on Wednesday and found a leopard skin in his bag, said Ram Chandra Rajguru, superintendent of police,…
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