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India: A team of Forest officers from Banderdewa Forest Division on Wednesday seized several wildlife meat and articles during a day-long search operation carried out at Midpu forest check gate, Doimukh from vehicles coming from different regions covering Kurung Kumey, Kra Daadi, Upper & Lower Subansari, East Kameng…
Read updatePakistan: A court in Gilgit-Baltistan has sent three persons to prison and imposed fine of Rs13 million for killing Markhors here. The accused persons were involved in the killing of three Markhors. The Gilgit-Baltistan Wildlife Department Magistrate Aftab Mehmod on Friday sent them to jail for two years and also…
Read updateIndia: Poachers from Arunachal Pradesh are active in the forests of Singhbhum and may have had a nasty role to play in the recent beheading of a 35-year-old tusker. Forest officials in Chaibasa, the headquarters of West Singhbhum district, 80km from here, have joined the dots between the arrest of six poachers from…
Read updateIndia: Foresters and special operations group (SOG) arrested two men from the Khatima forest range in Champawat district during a joint search operation on Sunday and seized a tiger skin and bones from them. The two arrested accused have been identified as Raju, 28, a resident of Kamalpur village and Mahabir, 45, a…
Read updateIndia: Two Nepali nationals among four poachers having international link have been arrested with dead animal parts, including a fresh skin of recently killed leopard, in the Dooars of north Bengal, Baikantapur forest ranger Sanjay Dutta said today. The forest guards laid several traps at Belacoba and Salughara in…
Read updateIndia: Wildlife officials have arrested a poacher and seized 10 dead migratory birds from his possession near Chilika lake in Odisha, forest officials said today.The poacher was caught from Ujad Gopinathpur while trying to flee after hunting 10 Purple Moorhens yesterday, Divisional Forest Officer, Chilika Wildlife…
Read updateIndia: Three men have been arrested for illegally possessing a red sand boa at Balkum on Monday. The crime branch unit-1 had received a tip-off that three men would be coming to Balkum to sell the snake. The cops then laid a trap and arrested the accused. "We had stationed our officers near the autorickshaw stand at…
Read updateIndia: Kishangarh police on Tuesday arrested two persons for selling body parts of Indian gazelle in the town. They are investigating the accused to uncover other animal killings.According to police, Ramniwas and Ramesh were trying to sell the skin and hair of gazelle in the market. "On getting information, we sent a…
Read updateIndia: The forest department arrested three men, who attempted to poach deer at Bhavanisagar near Sathyamangalam, and seized from them a single barrel gun. The arrested were identified as Balasubramaniam, Narayanaswamy and Vijaykumar, all hailing from Vellalapalayam. On Sunday, the men had gone to Beerkadavu area in…
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