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India: Officials of the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau, Kochi, arrested three persons while attempting to trade a sand boa, a snake variety included in the Schedule 4 of the Wildlife Protection Act. The arrested were identified as Ramesh and Anilkumar of Kollam and Muhammad Ismail of Kambam, Tamil Nadu. It was…
Read updateIndia: The Forest Department arrested seven alleged poachers with 11 bones and seven teeth of a tiger near the Sundarbans in Khulna on Saturday. The arrestees -- Abdul Gafur, Thakurpada Mistry, Ruhul Amin Gazi, Abdur Rahim, Charan Kumar Sarder, Attab Hossain and Hossain Sarder of Khulna -- were handed over to police.…
Read updateIndia The property cell of the city crime branch on Thursday arrested taxi driver, Vipul Joshi (28), for possessing and planning to sell an Earth Boa Snake. The police had received an information that someone would be coming near Reay Road station to sell a snake. A police team, along with the personnel of Wild Life…
Read updateIndia: A special court here denied anticipatory bail to a national-level shooter on Thursday in an alleged case of running a poaching and illegal arms racket. Special judge Sudesh Kumar denied relief to Prashant Vishnoi, noting that a number of incriminating items, including skulls, skin and meat of wild animals were…
Read updateIndia: Operation Wild Net, a crackdown on illegal wildlife trade through internet, delivered its first breakthrough on Tuesday when the Malaysian police arrested an Indian smuggler and seized 55 turtles, some of which are endangered, from him. Fakruddin Ali Ahmad Habeeb was arrested based on a tipoff by the Wildlife…
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India: The District Forest Police mobile squad busted an illegal trade in owls by raiding a house in Vannur village of Bailhongal taluk on Monday evening. The officials and rescued three juvenile Indian Eagle-Owls from a cage on the premises. The house belonged to one Chandrappa Mallappa Mirji, who managed to abscond…
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India: Two poachers, part of a six-member gang, were arrested for hunting, killing and transporting parts of blackbuck and deer in Banvasi Range, Sirsi, in Uttara Kannada district. Four culprits are absconding. On Sunday morning, Abdul Majid (65) and Abdul Karim (45)were arrested when they were transporting skin,…
Read updateIndia The special task force (STF) of the wildlife wing of Madhya Pradesh forest department has a 40-year-old man in connection with the India-China pangolin smuggling racket. This is the 129th arrest in the country's biggest ever poaching network cracked by the STF. Accused Nandlal Mongia, resident of Mongiapura…
Read updateIndia: Forest department officials today arrested nine smugglers and seized hide and other body parts of a leopard from Jalpaiguri district. Forest officials said the poachers had killed the leopard in Kokrajhar of Assam. Acting on a tip off, the officials posed as buyers and caught the nine smugglers at Barobisha…
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