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Pakistan: In another major breakthrough, the wildlife department confiscated more than 300 live freshwater turtles on Thursday evening and arrested four men in Shaheed Benazirabad district. Speaking to Dawn, officials said the turtles, identified as black pond species (Geoclemys hamiltonii), were seized during a…
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Bangladesh: Wildlife Crime Control Unit of the Bangladesh Forest Department seized more than 600 birds of different species from Zirabo area of Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka, early today. Tipped off, a WCCU team arrested one Lal Mia when he got down from a Dhaka-bound bus along with bird cages at Zirabo Bus Stand…
Read updateBangladesh: Ashim Mollick, inspector of Bangladesh Forest Department's wildlife crime prevention unit, told bdnews24.com that officers arrested Lal Miya, 35, in a drive conducted on a tip off at Savar's Zirabo around 2:30am on Wednesday. On the basis of information from him, police seized more than 600 birds…
Read updateIndia: Assam police on Sunday had apprehended three rhino poachers from Assam’s Nagaon district, officials said. Acting on a tip-off, a joint team of police and Special Task Force (STF) apprehended the poachers from Dhing area in Nagaon district. IRs 1,46,500 cash also seized from the apprehended poachers. The trio…
Read updateIndia: Forest Department officers on Saturday arrested Madurai Alaganallur resident Karuppanna, 63, suspected to be the kingpin in a racket involved in trade of tiger skin. The arrest was made after the officers found a tiger skin in a car that was intercepted late Thursday. Three persons who were travelling in the…
Read updateIndia: Foresters in Belgavi and Dandeli have stumbled upon a major wildlife racket involving pangolin (ant eater) meat and scales. In separate raids in the last two days, sleuths have arrested six people and have recovered 13 kg of pangolin scales and 15 kg of meat. Pangolin scales are in high demand from traditional…
Read updateIndia: Forest officials in Theni seized a tiger skin and a sambar deer skin along with a taxidermied pangolin from the Cardamom Planters Union School in Cumbum on Friday. Forest department sources said TRAFFIC, the wildlife crime control wing of the WWF-I, informed them that the school had displayed the tiger and…
Read updateIndia: The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) seized 24 star tortoises from a person selling the protected species from Airoli, Navi Mumbai on Monday. The accused, Mayuresh Nathuram Shirke, resident of Shastri Nagar, Dombivili (West), was arrested under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 with the help of wildlife…
Read updateIndia: The Pune city police arrested a man for ‘illegal possession of a sand boa snake’ on Tuesday. Police have identified the suspect as Vishal Sudhakar Mate (25), a resident of Kalewadi in Purandar. Acting on a tip-off to constable Ujjwal Mokashi of Bharati Vidyapeeth police station, a team led by sub-inspector…
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