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India: A 45 years old smuggler named Rathindra Sarkar was caught by the 53rd Battalion of SSB and the Simulbari Forest Department for possessing elephant’s teeth from the Satpukur Sandabari area of Falakata. Sarkar was nabbed during a special operation that had been planned based on inputs from secret sources. The…
Read updateBangladesh: Police in a drive arrested a poacher and seized skin of a deer in Kadamtola area under Sharankhola upazila on Friday night. Tipped off, a team of police intercepted a motorbike and held Saddam Ali, 20, son of Razzak Mir of Sonatola village of the upazila and recovered the skin from his possesion, said Md…
Read updateBangladesh: Law enforcers in Bagerhat arrested a poacher and seized skin of a deer during a drive in Kadamtola area under Sharankhola upazila on Friday night. The arrestee has been identified as Saddam Ali (20), son of Razzak Mir of Sonatola village of the upazila. Md Abdul Jalil, Officer-in-Charge of Sharankhola…
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Nepal: Police on Sunday said two persons including an Indian national were arrested on charge of smuggling protected wild animals and birds from Chamati in KMC-15 on Sunday. In a statement today, Metropolitan Crime Division said 52-year-old Amin Alam of Bidur Municipality-11 in Nuwakot district and 26-year-old…
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Sri Lanka: A group of seven suspects involved in various rackets, including poaching, illegal sand mining and robbery of cattle for slaughter, were rounded up by officers of the Galkiriyagama Wildlife Office during an operation in the Galkiriyagama forest range of the Kahalla Pallekelle reserve bordering the…
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India: About 100 kg of sea cucumber was seized Thursday near Dhanushkodi by coastal marine police. Two persons were arrested when they were found to be shifting it to a boat. They were allegedly planning to smuggle the sea cucumber to Sri Lanka via Dhanushkodi, police said. About 300 kg of sea cucumber was seized on…
Read updateIndia: The Baikunthapur forest officials on Sunday seized dried sea horses and arrested a smuggler from New Jalpaiguri area. The consignment packed in six plastic bags was around 55 kilograms that were brought from Chennai and plan to smuggle at Jaigaon along Indo- Bhutan border. On tip-off forest staffs and…
Read updateIndia A suspected smuggler was caught with a leopard skin, 2,100 pangolin scales and a kg of monitor lizard meat in Haridwar on Thursday in a joint operation by the Rajaji Tiger Reserve and NGO Traffic. Of the eight pangolin types, two are critically endangered while the rest range from endangered to vulnerable. The…
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India: In a joint operation executed by the Baikunthpur Forest Department’s Belakoba Range and the Wildlife Department’s Task Force, a smuggler was arrested with a live pangolin and a kilo of pangolin scales from Phansidewa Market, Siliguri. According to Belakoba’s Ranger & the Task Force’s in-charge Sanjay Dutt, the…
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