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Nepal: One person has been arrested in possession of 570 kilo gram Leopard bones and its hide from Pipalbot in Magar gaun in Lalitpur Metropolitan City-18 on Tuesday, police said. Police identified the suspect as Nakal Bahadur Bal (54) of Indrasarobar Rural Municipality-4 in Makwanpur district. Acting on a tip-off, a…
Read updateIndia: Seven poachers were recently arrested for hunting pangolins — the world’s most trafficked animal — in Kudremukh National Park. With rising demand for pangolin meat and its scales in the international markets of China and Vietnam, poaching of pangolin has been on the rise. In fact, four species of Asian…
Read updateIndia: Two dreaded poachers were nabbed by Sootea police in Biswanath district of Assam on Thursday. Sootea police managed to nab the poachers when they are trying to sneak into the sixth addition of Kaziranga National Park with the evil intention of rhino poaching. Arms and ammunition were also seized from the…
Read updateIndia: Two poachers were on Tuesday caught with four Indian eagle-owls near Chikkodi in Belagavi district while they were delivering the birds to a ‘potential customer’ they had met on an online portal. Little did they know that they were walking into a trap laid by forest department officials. Bahu Saheb Annappa and…
Read updateIndia: The pair of hoolock gibbons, two palm civets and 42 exotic birds of different species seized from a car on the Basanti Highway on Thursday were allegedly on their way to Mumbai. The animals were to be delivered to a seller waiting near Science City, who would in turn transport them to Mumbai, said an official…
Read updateIndia: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has arrested two men for allegedly smuggling gibbons and some exotic birds into the country from Bangladesh. Acting on inputs, the DRI officials intercepted a car near the Indo-Bangla border at North 24 Parganas yesterday. Three cages full of wild animals and 40…
Read updateIndia: The Golaghat Police arrested two rhino poachers from Furkating Railway station under Golaghat police station on Tuesday night. According to police report, following secret information, Golaghat Police under the leadership of Additional SP Druba Bora, launched an operation against the rhino poachers and…
Read updateIndia: Eight pitcher plants that are found in the Khasi Hills of Meghalaya and two varieties of orchid were seized from a house in Rahara last week. Stocking or cultivating these outside the wild is banned under the wildlife protection act. The Orchids seized are Blue Vanda and Ladies Slipper. Seventy-four plants…
Read updateNepal: Police said four persons were arrested in possession of tiger skin from Sandhara of KMC-6, on Monday. Acting on a tip-off, police teams deployed from Metropolitan Police Sector, Kapan and Metropolitan Crime Branch, Bouddha apprehended 27-year-old Shyam Karki of Dashrathchand Municipality-6 in Baitadi district…
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