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Four arrested for smuggling Royal Bengal tiger's skin in Jalpaiguri | SAWEN

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Wildlife Crime NewsApril 3, 2016

Four arrested for smuggling Royal Bengal tiger's skin in Jalpaiguri

India: Forest officials of the Belakoba range under West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district arrested four persons for smuggling skin and bones of Royal Bengal Tigers. They seized 11 feet length tiger skin and 88 pieces of tiger bones from New Alipurduar district. Forest ranger of Belakoba forest, Sanjay Dutta, said that…

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India: Forest officials of the Belakoba range under West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district arrested four persons for smuggling skin and bones of Royal Bengal Tigers. They seized 11 feet length tiger skin and 88 pieces of tiger bones from New Alipurduar district. Forest ranger of Belakoba forest, Sanjay Dutta, said that the miscreants had planned to sell the skin in Nepal.

(Source: Business Standard)

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