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India: Dinesh is said to be a habitual offender who He has cases against him for timber smuggling. He has good clout with people in the local haadis, who are under his influence and tend to be hostile towards the department, according to sources. While initial reports indicate that the tiger was snared, senior…
Read updateIndia: In a major breakthrough, a joint team of City Police, forest guards and CRPF today busted a poachers' gang inside the Garbhanga Reserve Forest and seized a large cache of weapons and other war-like stores from their possession. Four poachers were arrested while around six others managed to flee, the police…
Read updateBangladesh: Wildlife Crime Control Unit of the Bangladesh Forest Department rescued a total of 255 birds of different species from bird traders at Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka, this morning. A WCCU team in a drive seized the birds in the morning, said Ashim Kumar Mallick, wildlife inspector of WCCU, told The…
Read updateIndia:The wildlife wing of the forest department, which made tall claims of zero poaching, stands exposed after a sub-adult tiger has been found moving with a wire snare in its neck inside the Tipeshwar Wildlife Sanctuary, 180km from here, in Yavatmal district. In the 148sqkm sanctuary, there are two males and two…
Read updateIndia: The government's wildlife crime control agency has seized huge consignments of live animals, ivory, tiger and leopard skins among other products and arrested 71 people in a nationwide crackdown on illegal trade in wildlife, in coordination with Interpol. The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) under the…
Read updateIndia: The Mir Chowk police on Wednesday arrested two persons and seized eight ivory from their possession at Kali Khaber bus stop. Acting on a specific alert, the Mir Chowk police arrested B Narsaiah of Nagole and A Srinivas Reddy of Bholakpur when they were waiting for prospective customers at Kali Khaber bus stop…
Read updateIndia: The Wildlife Management authorities on Wednesday arrested Bavirisetty Pavan Kumar while he was allegedly attempting to sell leopard skin at Jangareddygudem bus terminus in West Godavari district. A team of forest officials led by Kaikaluru Range Assistant Conservator of Forest (Wildlife) N. Ramachandra Rao on…
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India: In a horrific poaching incident in Himachal Pradesh, outlaws not only hunted down a leopard but also hacked away its four paws. Suspicion is that the paws were sawed off for the nails which fetch several lakh rupees in the international black market, besides the hide. The carcass was found in the forests of…
Read updateIndia: Barely a week after a spotted deer fell prey to poachers on the Hyderabad Central University (HCU) campus, another deer was brutally killed with the chopped off head left near the Old Horticulture Garden on Tuesday evening. It was Sathya Prakash, a faculty of the University, who saw the head of the spotted…
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