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South Asia Wildlife Enforcement Network (SAWEN) as one of the collaborators supported to organize the 'Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation for Addressing Wildlife and Forest Crimes and Attaining SDGs' on 28-29 August 2018 in Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand. The conference was organized by…
Read updateIndia: The RMC Yard police arrested a man for illegally smuggling and selling sea fans (gorgonians) in the city and seized 130 sea fans from the accused. The accused, Madhukumar, 29, a resident of Byatarayanapura, was remanded to judicial custody. The police said that sea fans or gorgonians were being smuggled from…
Read updateIndia: A 52-year-old man from Ratnagiri has been arrested with leopard skin.The Crime Branch Unit III of the Navi Mumbai Police nabbed Ashrap Chipolkar after laying a trap for him near Little World Mall last week. An unidentified person from Dapoli gave the leopard skin to Mr. Chipolkar, who was to give it to someone…
Read updateIndia: Ahead of the Naag Panchmi festival next week, Forest Department officials have seized 21 snakes from snake charmers in the Sri Krishna Janam Bhoomi area here in the past two days. More snake charmers and poachers are under the radar, an official said. Out of the 21 snakes, 14 were cobras, four rat snakes and…
Read updateIndia: Bengaluru police on Friday arrested six persons, including businessmen and a college student, who were allegedly involved in selling wild animals’ skin and horns, from Uttara Kannada district. According to sources, Mahalakshmi Layout police arrested two persons — Manjunath Ratnakar Naik of Sirsi and Krishna…
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India: Three blue eclectus parrots, one of them the more flamboyant male of the species, were found in the boot of a car that customs officials had intercepted on the Kalyani Expressway on June 27. Four pairs of African pygmy falcons, three red-and-blue macaws and seven white ducks were confiscated during the same…
Read updateIndia: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has arrested two persons and seized six pieces of ivory collectively weighing about 10 kgs from their possession in West Bengal, an official statement issued today said. The duo was intercepted near Tenzing Norgey bus stand in Siliguri and six pieces of ivory…
Read updateIndia: The Manak Chowk police on Sunday recovered the skin of a tiger, nails and fake silver coins from two accused. Police said that on July 1 it has arrested one Ajay Kumar Gokhru with nails and other items. After he was interrogated, the police zeroed in on two wildlife smugglers from Shirdi in Maharashtra. On…
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India: In a major breakthrough, Madhya Pradesh police seized hides of a tiger, leopard and jungle cat during a covert operation in Balaghat district. Police claim these endangered species were poached by poisoned-kills deep inside Maoist-infested forest areas on Satpura-Maikal landscape of central India — largest…
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