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India: A joint team of the Gujarat police and the forest department shot dead a female sloth bear near Balaram Wildlife Sanctuary in North Gujarat. Deputy Conservator of Forest I.K. Barad said, “Since Sunday, the bear had killed three persons and injured five others in a series of attacks in Banaskantha district. Mr.…
Read updateNepal: Police have arrested three persons in possession of a red panda hide from Dang on Wednesday. The arrestees have been identified as Bharat Chaudhary (28) of Lumbini, Pratap Budhathoki (30) of Dang and Pun Raj Pun (64) of Rukum, confirmed DSP Bhuwaneswor Tiwari of the Dang District Police Office. Acting on a tip…
Read updateIndia: The number of Asiatic lions that have died due to unnatural causes like electrocution and drowning in wells has shot up significantly in Saurashtra. The damning numbers have been revealed in official data procured using Right to Information (RTI) tool.The data shows that of the 95 lions that died between April…
Read updateIndia: About 2000 tortoises were recovered from a truck by a joint team of CID and West Bengal police from the Chakdaha-Bongao road under Chakdaha police station area in Nadia district, police said on Wednesday. On an information, CID sleuths and policemen intercepted the truck carrying 2000 tortoises wrapped in 50…
Read updateIndia: The Red-sanders Anti-Smuggling Task Force along with the forest department officials seized 280 logs of the precious wood in the Vonipenta Forest Range in Kadapa district on Thursday. In the wee hours of Thursday, when the smugglers were loading the logs onto the vehicles, the officials raided their places at…
Read updateIndia: Forest officials on Tuesday seized about 15 kg of venison and arrested a poacher from Batighar village on the fringes of the Bhitarkanika Wildlife Sanctuary in Kendrapara district. “Acting on information that poachers had hunted a spotted deer in the mangrove forest areas within the park, houses of suspected…
Read updateNepal: Police said two persons have been arrested in possession of Eurasian otter from Kalimati of KMC-12. The mammal (scientific name Lutra lutra) is considered to be Near Threatened species due to sharp fall in its population and has been included in the IUCN’s Red List. A special police team deployed from the…
Read updateIndia: A wildlife photographer, who works as a software engineer in the city, was among four people arrested for illegally selling mounted trophies of tigers and a leopard. The police have recovered three stuffed tigers and one black panther, which are alleged to have been obtained from a businessman in Mysuru. The…
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Nepal: Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police run an operation under 'Operation Thunderbird' from January to February 2017 and arrested 18 suspects, seized wildlife products and rescued live animals from different parts of Nepal. The operation was initiated under the aegis of the International Consortium…
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