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India: In an ominous sign for big cat protection efforts, a gigantic Royal Bengal tiger skin and over 200 pieces of skeletal bones were seized while being smuggled across the vulnerable Assam-Arunachal border on Saturday. The Guwahati (Assam) unit of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) made a surprise raid at a…
Read updateIndia: The City Crime Branch (CCB) police have arrested three persons trying to sell deer horns in the city on Monday. They seized 56 horns from the trio. The police suspect there is a big gang killing wild animals to make easy money. Based on a tip-off that some persons were selling deer horns, a police team rushed…
Read updateIndia The Special Task Force of the forest department and Bokakhat Police arrested two poachers, including a student, from the Kamargaon area in Golaghat district, some 280 km from here on Thursday. Acting on a tip-off, security sleuths nabbed the duo while they were heading towards Kaziranga National Park's…
Read updateIndia Carcass of a two-year-old male leopard was found in an open land near a temple in the outskirts of Joravasan village in Valsad district on Wednesday. It was frothing at the mouth and also oozing blood besides its six claws were found to be missing. Residents of Joravasan village alerted the forest officials who…
Read updateIndia: The Thane Police Crime Branch on Tuesday arrested two persons for allegedly trying to smuggle two Earth Boa snakes in the market. An endangered species, the snakes are in high demand in the market for supersitions associated with it. Thane Crime Branch officers said the arrests were made by by the Unit I of…
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Sri Lanka: Wildlife officers yesterday seized several ornaments carved out of elephant tusks from the home of the Basnayake Nilame of the Kataragama Devalaya in Kandy. The officers had inspected the Basnayake Nilame’s house following a complaint that he owned ornaments made out of elephant tusks without a valid…
Read updateIndia: In a joint operation of UP STF and Forest Department, international wildlife smuggler Ajay Singh and his accomplice Deependra was arrested from Agra on Monday and 23 red crowned roof turtle (Batagur kachuga), popularly called `lal tilakdhari', were recovered from them. Poachers were transporting the turtles to…
Read updateIndia: In what has alerted the wildlife authorities in Assam, poachers on Friday killed yet another one-horn rhino in Orang National Park in Sonitpur district and chopped off its horn. Informing that carcass of the rhino, with its horn removed, was recovered near the Pisalmukh forest camp on Friday morning, wildlife…
Read updateIndia: The Arunachal Pradesh Police, Pasighat on Thursday arrested three persons for hunting of wild animals from the Daying Ering Wildlife Sanctuary. The arrested have been identified as Makpel Tayeng (38), Kutyan Daring (55) and Boleram Lego (45), all from Borguli village in East Siang district. The police,…
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