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Pakistan: The Airport Security Force (ASF) foiled an attempt to smuggle 11 partridges in two suitcases to Birmingham, United Kingdom, and arrested a British national at the Benazir Bhutto International Airport on Thursday. The birds were discovered by ASF personnel while checking the luggage of passengers on Pakistan…
Read updatePakistan: The Airport Security Force (ASF) foiled an attempt to smuggle 11 partridges in two suitcases to Birmingham, United Kingdom, and arrested a British national at the Benazir Bhutto International Airport on Thursday. The birds were discovered by ASF personnel while checking the luggage of passengers on Pakistan…
Read updateBangladesh: Members of Bangladesh Coastguard in a drive early yesterday seized 51 kilograms of venison from Kalirkhal area under Satkhira range near the Sundarbans. During the regular patrolling, a team of the coastguards, acting on a tip-off, conducted a drive in the area adjacent to the Sundarbans and seized the…
Read updateIndia: As many as four persons were arrested on charges of killing a tiger by poisoning near Sathyamangalam, even as Forest officials are on the lookout for five more persons in connection with this startling incident. The officials recently found the carcass of a tiger at Marikudi area near Thalamalai in…
Read updateIndia: In a joint operation, Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) officials, with the help of Criminal Investigation Department sleuths, arrested a group of six people, including a constable with the Fire Services Department of Andhra Pradesh, who were trying to sell spotted deer skins on Wednesday. Acting on a…
Read updateIndia: Over 100 tortoises were seized today from a train and one person was arrested in this connection from Katihar railway junction, an official said. During checking in a general compartment of Ajmer-Kishanganj Garib Nawaz Express, the GRP men seized over 100 tortoises and nabbed the man, Railway Superintendent of…
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India: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence or DRI has arrested three people, including a Slovenian, for their alleged involvement in a major gunrunning and wildlife smuggling racket, after raids at national-level shooter's house in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut led to a haul of arms and animal meat. The accused were…
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SAWEN took part in a CITES Tortoises and Freshwater Turtles Task Force (Task Force) meeting held by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Secretariat on 25-27 April 2017 in Singapore. Major objective of the task force meeting was to discuss on wider prospects of…
Read updateIndia: A Delhi court has sentenced two persons to three years of imprisonment for indulging in illicit trafficking of leopard skins from Karnal in Haryana to Sunder Nagar in Delhi. "Parliament, in bringing a new legislation for protection of wild life, was inspired by the urge to preserve what little is left of wild…
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