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India: In one of the biggest seizures of freshwater turtles in the state, the forest department with the help of local cops seized more than 3,000 flapshell turtles, protected under Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act, in Burdwan since December 29. While 1850 turtles were sized on December 29, another 1625 were…
Read updateIndia: Two persons were arrested by Special Task Force of the Jakhalabondha Police force in collaboration with forest security force and Lahdoigarh police out post officials following a sting operation on the accused rhino-horn dealers. The police officials acted as a buyer of the valuable rhino horn in the sting…
Read updateNepal: Three people were arrested in possession of a red panda hide from Chuchepati of Kathmandu, on Tuesday. Shukra Thami (27), Shyam Kumar Tamang (27) and Lawa Tamang (30) of Dolakha were arrested for their alleged involvement in trading of the hide of the endangered species. Acting on a tip-off, a special team…
Read updateBangladesh: Residents of Khata Modhupur village under Saidpur upazila of the district yesterday caught a bird hunter red-handed and rescued some wild birds and seized bird catching traps from his possession. The hunter is Md Atiar Rahman, son of late Yakub Ali of Rambala village in the upazila. Chairman of Khata…
Read updateNepal: The Central Investigation Beureau of Nepal Police on Wednesday arrested five persons including a teenager in possession of a leopard hide, from Swayambhu, KMC-15. Police identified four of the suspects as Ranjit Putuwar aka Bhupendra (23) of Ichangunarayan of Kathmandu, Bir Bahadur Tamang of Dahachok on the…
Read updateIndia: A total number of 900 bottles of Phensedyl and tortoise bones/shells weighing around 10 kg were seized from Indo-Bangla border in Malda, the BSF said today. On December 20, 2016 specific information was received regarding smuggling of huge quantity of Phensedyl bottles from India to Bangladesh and accordingly…
Read updateIndia: The MP forest department’s special task force (STF) arrested 39 people for poaching three tigers, four leopards and 200 wild boars, busting a major poaching network in the Pench-Kanha corridor in Seoni and Balaghat districts. The arrested people include four tantrics, 14 middlemen and 21 poachers. Forest…
Read updateIndia: Two adult elephants were killed and another injured in two separate incidents in Assam’s Goalpara and Nagaon districts close on the heels of three others being killed two days ago in Hojai district. An elephant died and another was injured by a goods train when they were crossing a rail line at Darangiri in…
Read updateIndia: In a bizarre twist to the demonetisation aftershocks, two witch doctors have been arrested for allegedly instigating villagers to kill tigers for their paws, saying they could cast magic spells to "rain money in new currency". Seven suspects have been arrested from Seoni district in the past week for killing…
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