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India: Three months after it was set up, the Uttar Pradesh Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (UPWCCB) has cracked its first case — the brutal killing of a 25-year-old female elephant in Bijnor early this year. Four people have been arrested for the crime, officials said on Wednesday. However, 12 others are still at…
Read updateIndia: At least 30 Alexandrine parrots, known for their ability to mimic humans, were rescued here when they were being illegally transported from Punjab, a senior wildlife official said Monday. Two smugglers, hailing from Punjab, were arrested while the search for a man who was to receive the consignment for illegal…
Read updateIndia: Crime branch unit 1, on Saturday, arrested four people trying to sell a Sand Boa, a rare snake species, which comes under the Schedule 3 animals under the Wild Life Protection Act 1972. Recently the city and rural police arrested people in possession of the snake. It appears to have two heads and there are…
Read updateIndia: Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Mumbai unit in a joint operation with WCCB & Forest Department has seized 523 star tortoise from one train passenger at the Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Railway station on September 6. The lady accused who was travelling from Puttaparthi, in Andhra Pradesh to Kurla Terminus has…
Read updateIndia: The Valsad district court has remanded to forest department custody an owner of a private farm house in the interior village of Kaprada taluka after he was arrested for illegally keeping two blackbucks. Kaprada range forest officials rescued the blackbucks from the farmhouse of Arshad Illyas Khan, 31, at…
Read updateIndia: In a joint operation, the sleuths of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) seized 43 rare Assam Roof Turtles from the Central Railway Station on Tuesday. Two of these turtles died. The officials from the Advanced Institute for Wildlife Conservation (AIWC) and Arignar Anna Zoological Park (AAZP) were…
Read updateNepal: Two persons have been arrested in possession of five live red panda on Tuesday. A police team deployed from the Metropolitan Police Circle, Durbarmarg, nabbed Sukra Rai and Ajit Basnet of Solukhumbu while they were searching for prospective clients to sell the endangered animal. DSP Dan Bahadur Malla said that…
Read updateIndia: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has smashed an international wildlife smuggling racket with the seizure of about 8,000 kg of shark fins in Mumbai and the coastal town of Veraval in Gujarat. Four persons, including the mastermind, have also been arrested. According to the DRI, the consignments…
Read updateIndia: Four poachers have been arrested by a team of Bijnor forest department and police personnel for killing an elephant, chopping it into pieces and burying its carcass six months ago. Fifteen more people have been booked under the Wildlife Protection Act allegedly for helping to chop the carcass into small pieces…
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