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India: The Kochi city police late on Saturday seized suspected shark fins weighing around 6,000 kg. Acting on a tip-off, the shadow police team of sub inspector Honey K. Das effected the seizure during a raid at an export agency operating at Karivelippady. The contraband was being smuggled from Kochi under the guise…
Read updateNepal: A team of police deployed from the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police has arrested three persons with a leopard hide on Thursday. The arrestees have been identified as Jivan Tamang of Melamchi Municipality-10, Sindupalchowk, Surendra Pakhrin of Tamakoshi Rural Municipality-2 and Singhabir…
Read updateIndia: A joint operation by the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), customs, CISF and forest department seized 28 KG of Agar wood chips from one Mohammad Zammir Uddin of Hojai at Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport here on Wednesday. The consignment was for exporting to Bahrain via New Delhi. WCCB…
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India: Wildlife Crime Control Bureau officials on Tuesday busted a snake venom racket and rescued 13 reptiles, including seven cobras, four rat snakes and a Russell’s viper, from a house in Thigalarapalya in Byadarahalli police station limits. Based on a tip-off about the sale of snake venom, a team led by inspector…
Read updateIndia: A Chinese national has been arrested by the customs at the Indira Gandhi International airport here for allegedly trying to smuggle out over 86 kg of red sanders.The accused was intercepted when he was proceeding to depart to Kunming in China on Sunday. "A through search of the passenger's baggage resulted in…
Read updateIndia: Fishermen trying to enter Maharashtra side of the Totladoh reservoir in Pench Tiger Reserve, near Pivarthadi on the Madhya Pradesh border, threw three explosive devices when Special Tiger Protection Force (STPF) personnel challenged them on Sunday evening. A repeat of the February 2015 incident, where a…
Read updateNepal: The Central Investigation Bureau of Nepal Police has arrested two persons with a dead wildlife and an animal hide from assorted locations in the Capital. A 40-year-old Khamba Bahadur Lakai aka Krishna of Bakhrechhap, Melung-1 in Dolakha district was nabbed on Tuesday while he was trying to sell the protected…
Read updateIndia: Forest officials on Friday morning arrested six persons involved in poaching of a Royal Bengal Tiger in the Manas National Park in western Assam and recovered from their possession a tiger skin and 154 pieces of tiger bones too. The recovery was made following a raid in two villages on the fringes of the…
Read updateIndia: In yet another startling revelation in Pench tiger poaching case, the full-grown tiger that was killed in Golpahadi in the core was poisoned in April by mixing pesticides in a natural water hole. The accused in the Golpahadi case has been identified as Mukesh Uike of Shirepani in Chhindwara. TOI learnt about…
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