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Nepal: 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 arrested in possession of Leopard skin. Police Inspector at Baitadi District Police Office Hariom Khadka informed that the Leopard…
Read updateIndia: At least two poachers were killed by forest guards in Assam's Orang national park on Tuesday, an official said. The guards also recovered a 303 rifle, 10 bullets and an axe. Forest guards kill rhino poachers in Assam national park. (File photo) Assam's Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, Wildlife Bikash…
Read updateIndia: A Special Task Force of the police nabbed a wildlife smuggler in Dehradun and seized a total of nine leopard skins, two bear’s gall bladder and a deer’s antler from his possession. Acting on a tip-off, STF personnel nabbed Raghubir Singh Bisht of Pauri Garhwal from the Tyagi road area of Dehradun. On search,…
Read updateNepal: Nearly 10 days after famous tiger Prince was found dead with a missing snout at Bandipur Tiger Reserve, forest staff managed to find the snout inside a pit, a few meters away from the place where the tiger's carcass was lying. The carcass of 12-year-old Prince was found at Lokkare forest, coming under Kundkere…
Read updateIndia: A body of an adult tigress was found in the Dachauri range of Ramnagar forest division on Friday. The body was spotted by a forest department patrol. It was the seventh tiger which died in the hill state this year. So many tigers dying in a span of just three and a half months has raised concerns among…
Read updateIndia: Police in a joint operation with forest officials arrested two persons and seized tiger bones from Kolaguripathar at the Bihaliarea in Sonitpur district, some 250 km from here, on Thursday. The two were identified as Jiten Namo Das and Pramod Hazarika. Police said, "The seized items include a tiger skull and…
Read updateIndia: An animal welfare organisation has announced a reward of Rs 1 lakh to help nab the thief responsible for stealing four tusks. Interestingly, the reward announced by Humane Society International India (HSI India) is not about a recent case of elephant-poaching. The tusks, stolen from the Sankarankulangara…
Read updateIndia: A 3-year-old male tiger died mysteriously in Madhya Pradesh’s Sanjay-Dubri Tiger Reserve on Tuesday evening, taking the number of big cat deaths in the state to 6 this year. Dileep Kumar, field director of the reserve, told Hindustan Times that the tiger was shifted to Sanjay Tiger Reserve from Pench on March…
Read updateSri Lanka: Acting on a tip-off, the naval personnel attached to the North Central Naval Command apprehended two persons who were illegally transporting sea hog (dugong) flesh at Oluthuduwai yesterday. During the arrest, 82 Kg sea hog flesh and three knives were recovered with the suspects. The suspects and seized…
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