News & updates
Official SAWEN updates and clearly attributed wildlife crime reporting from external publishers.
India: Poachers killed another one horned rhino in Assam’s Biswanath district. Forest guards on Sunday recovered a bullet injured, dehorned carcass of a male rhino at Modajir Tapu near Batimari in the northern Assam district. A top official of state forest department said that poachers had killed the rhino few days…
Read updateIndia: Security forces on Saturday arrested a six-member gang of poachers and illegal wildlife traders from central Assam's Nagaon district, officials said. They also recovered a rhino horn from the gang. Based on intelligence input provided by the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau, a Nagaon police team led by DSP…
Read updateIndia: The special operation group team of Pithoragarh police on Saturday seized an eight-foot-long leopard skin worth Rs 5-7 lakh, and arrested three people in this connection, who were on their way to Nepal via Didihat. Police have identified the accused as Ajay Singh of Didihat, Manohar Singh from Musiyari area…
Read updateIndia Kaziranga forest staff and police arrested six persons from a nearby village in the park on Monday on charges of their involvement in rhino poaching. Members of the forest staff seized 10 rounds of live ammunition of .303 rifle from them. "Acting on a tip-off, a joint operation of police and forest staff was…
Read updateIndia: Forest officials apprehended four suspected smugglers and seized 105 star tortoises from them during a raid in the Surabhi forest area in Lakkireddipalle mandal in Kadapa district on Sunday. The accused were allegedly smuggling the star tortoises to Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata by packing them in parcels when…
Read update
India: A 40-year-old man was killed and eight policemen were injured when members of a nomadic tribe attacked a police party which had gone to arrest him for allegedly poaching wild animals. "The eight-member police team had gone to arrest Pusa last evening near Silaria village but members of his tribe attacked it,…
Read update
India: Investigation into the sale of meat of endangered wild animals is a well-organised racket, forest department officials said, a day after sleuths seized two black buck horns, animal meat and 24 quails from a Old City residence. Black buck is a rare Indian antelope, found in Pakistan, India and Nepal. Though…
Read updateNepal: A person was held with Leopard hide from Patan of Baitadi on Wednesday. The District Police Office, Baitadi shared that Mahesh Singh Sutar of Shivanath rural municipality-6 was attested in possession of Leopard skin. Police Inspector at Baitadi District Police Office Hariom Khadka informed that the Leopard…
Read updateIndia: In yet another breakthrough, that too close on the heels of killing of two armed poachers inside Orang National Park (ONP) on Monday midnight, a joint team of Darrang and Udalguri police recovered a large quantity of materials used in poaching of rhinos including one .303 rifle and one short barrel rifle, from…
Read update