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India: Wildlife Institute of India (WII) scientist, YV Jhala has confirmed that the tiger skin seized by the Nepal government on December 26, 2015 from Haryana based poachers is of a tiger from Corbett Tiger Reserve . The conclusion was drawn by matching the stripes in photo procured from Nepal forest department with…
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India: In a development that lays bare a thriving network of wildlife crime in the vicinity of Kaziranga National Park, sleuths of the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau, police and CRPF busted a country gun-making factory at Jogota Pahar under the Dokmoka police station in Karbi Anglong district last night. Two persons…
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India: One smuggler was arrested for possessing a rhino’s horn in a special operation that was executed by the 46th Batallion of S.S.B. and Gorumara North Range’s forest officials yesterday. The arrested, Gaur Mallik(29), resides in Ghatpara of Sarugaon in Falakata. Mallik was accompanied by four other men before he…
Read updateIndia: The Wildlife Control Bureau (WCCB) of Navi Mumbai along with Forest Department team on Monday seized rare 200 Indian Star tortoises which is protected under schedule IV of the Wildlife (Protection) Act and arrested two- son and his father from Kalyan railway station for smuggling these tortoises from…
Read updateIndia: Jawans of 53rd Bn of Sashastra Seema Bal ( SSB) on Saturday rescued 7 ( seven) Tokay Gecko, a rare and endangered species of reptile , known as KEKO SAAP in local parlance in north east, and nabbed a person, Anil lama s/o Gopal Lama r/o Birpara Assam. The Tokay Gecko has a great demand in the international…
Read updateIndia: In a pre-dawn operation on Sunday, Mandapam police seized 180 kg of endangered sea cucumbers, protected under Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act, after intercepting an autorickshaw, while the Forest department personnel, who gave a hot chase to another vehicle, missed their ‘target’ by a whisker.…
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India: The Maharashtra forest department has lately been investigating into a surprise seizure of 80 MT of capiz sea shells from Navi Mumbai's Ulwe area. The beautiful marine mollusks with a hard, protective outer case are found scattered across sea shores in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa and Karnataka. Since ages, they…
Read updateIndia When you browse through any e-commerce websites and come across stuffs like double engine, scooter, four-wheeler, pipe, aalo (potato), pyaz (onion) dhariwala chaddar and chhota dhariwala chaddar, those may not be the real products. If the state Crime Branch is to be believed, wildlife smugglers upload these…
Read updateIndia Days after the Pench Tiger Reserve administration claimed an increase in the number of tigers in the reserve, poaching of more than one tiger has come to the fore. The forest staff on Monday arrested two persons, Devidas Kumre and Babulal Kumre, from Usripar village in Ramtek tehsil and seized tiger bones,…
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