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CITES: International operation against the illegal trade in wild animals and plants including timber has seen hundreds of seizures worldwide as well as arrests of suspects. Code-named “Thunderstorm” and targeting the people and networks behind global wildlife crime, the operation involved police, customs, border,…
Read updateIndia: Two more poachers were arrested from the northern range of the sixth addition of Kaziranga National Park who confessed to have killed a rhino at Panpur in Sonitpur district on May 29. Sono Ngaihte of Churachandpur in Manipur along with Kamal Tawang of Lakhimpur in Assam were arrested at Gohpur. The duo were…
Read updateIndia: Crime branch of Indore police on Friday arrested a man, who had been on run in a case of critically endangered Indian star tortoises smuggling and keeping them at his home. Police said that they had received a tip-off about the whereabouts of 32-year-old Neeraj Sharma. Sharma had been on run in a case lodged…
Read updateIndia: The judicial magistrate court in Kotagiri on Wednesday sentenced three persons to three years imprisonment and fined Rs. 10,500 each in connection with a case of poaching a wild elephant for its ivory tusks. Selvam, Forest Range Officer, Sigur Range and (in-charge) of Thengumaradah Section, said that the case…
Read updateIndia: Forest officials have nabbed five persons while tying to allegedly sell five Indian Star Tortoises (Geochelone elegans) which were smuggled to the state from Karnataka for illegal sale. The forest flying squad from Kozhikode nabbed the accused at the Thondayad junction and took a Maruti Swift car and a two…
Read updateIndia: Two people, including a constable of Indo-Tibetan border police (ITBP), were arrested in Champawatwith five leopard skins which they were planning to smuggle to Nepal. The suspected poachers were arrested at Banbasa near the Indo-Nepal border on Sunday even as one of their accomplices managed to escape. This…
Read updateIndia: Two persons were arrested for allegedly killing a deer that strayed into a village from a forest in West Singhbhum district, forest officials said today. The deer was killed yesterday in Pachasai village under the jurisdiction of Noamundi police station, the officials said, adding that the accused were…
Read updateIndia: Two persons were arrested for allegedly poaching a leopard in the forests of Dodarna (I) in Kubheer mandal on May 26. They were produced before the media by forest officials in Bhainsa on Monday. Nirmal Forest Divisional Officer J Gopal Rao said the accused — Devbhale Dada Rao and Devbhale Parameshwar — were…
Read updateIndia: Four men accused of poaching a spotted deer, a wild animal of Schedule -IV under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, in Sivagiri, were detained by the staff of Forest Department on Saturday. Besides, meat weighing about 25 kg was recovered and a country gun, aruval, knife, rod and two bikes were seized from…
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