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India: Injured in a leopard attack, a farm labourer and his friends allegedly beat up the carnivore to death with an axe and wooden sticks, tied its legs to a heavy stone and threw the carcass in a river in Gir-Somnath district. The villagers did not stop the atrocity at that and went on to retrieve the carcass from…
Read updateSri Lanka: A Sri Lankan woman was arrested with 11 kilograms of pangolin scales by the airport customs officers last night while she was trying to smuggle them to Chennai. Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) Deputy Director Parakrama Basnayake said this was the largest stock of pangolin scales ever detected in…
Read updateIndia: A combing party of the Red Sanders Anti Smuggling Task Force (RSASTF) opened two rounds of fire reportedly to quell a mob of stone-pelting smuggling operatives at Yerrollabandalu gradient, 3 km from the forest check post of Bhakarapeta of Tirupati wildlife circle, in the early hours of Thursday. 21 logs…
Read updateSri Lanka: Chennai airport officials on Wednesday rescued a total of 3,000 red-eared slider turtles from a city-based passenger commuting in Sri Lankan airlines. The passenger, whose name was not revealed by the customs department of the city airport, has a history of frequent visits to South Asian countries, where…
Read updateIndia: Three carcasses of Jungle cats (Felis Chaus), categorised under schedule-II of the Wildlife Protection Act-1972, were found by forest officials of Khurda range on the outskirts of the city on Thursday. Officials have launched a manhunt for poachers, who are suspected to belong to nearby villages, official…
Read updateIndia: Two adult leopards died at a tea garden in Titabor area in Jorhat district on Thursday due to poisoning. The carcasses were found at Kachajan tea estate in Titabor area at around 10 am on Thursday. Tea garden workers found the leopards dead and informed forest staff. The leopards were a male and a female. A…
Read updateIndia: The carcass of an adult rhino with its horn removed by poachers was recovered from Kaziranga National Park (KNP) in Assam today. The carcass was highly decomposed, Divisional Forest Officer Ruhini Saikia said adding a poacher identified as Suleiman Ali was apprehended in this connection. This is the second…
Read updateIndia: In a joint operation by the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) and the Karnataka police, five pieces of ivory, weighing 17.2 kilograms, was seized from a gang on Monday at Chikka Tirupathi, around 40 kilometres from Bengaluru. Four pieces were stolen from the Forest Range Office in Kuppam in Andhra Pradesh…
Read updateIndia: In a significant achievement, the Darrang Police led by newly-joined Superintendent of Police Sreejith Thiraviam, arrested three hardcore poachers who were involved in the killing of a rhino in broad daylight in Orang National Park (ONP) on January 28, that too during the visit of Chief Minister Sarbananda…
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