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Wildlife Crime News
Selected wildlife crime reporting from external publishers, clearly attributed and linked to its original source.
Amritsar, India: The Chamba (Himachal Pradesh) forest department has seized body parts of rare and valuable forest animals that were to be used in occult practices during the polling and ahead of the counting of votes in various places including Punjab following the arrest of four persons including two from Punjab.…
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Krishnagiri, India: The age-old banned practice of hunting wild animals for meat and other body parts continues to be popular in Sikkarimedu, a tribal settlement in Krishnagiri that has a majority population of Narikuravars. On Saturday, TNIE visited the tribal village along with Antony Rubin Clement, a member of the…
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Mizoram, India: Mizoram Police have successfully intercepted a smuggling operation, rescuing 24 exotic species, including 18 snakes, at Kanhmun village on the Mizoram-Tripura border, according to a police statement issued on Thursday. The operation led to the arrest of two Tripura residents involved in the illegal…
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Guwahati, India: A joint team of forest guards and Darrang police apprehended a rhino poacher on Friday night from the Orang National Park and Tiger Reserve, foiling his poaching attempt at the national park. Director of the national park told, "Based on an intelligent input the joint team of forest officials and…
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Nuapada, India: Forest Department officials on Sunday arrested a wildlife smuggler red-handed while he was selling a leopard skin. While five people have been arrested in this connection, two motorcycles and four mobile phones were seized from their possession. According to reports, acting on a tip-off, Forest…
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Erode, India: The mastermind behind a poaching gang was arrested from Karnataka by the Tamil Nadu forest department on Sunday in connection with the killing of an 18-year-old male elephant and poaching of its tusks at Thalavadi in Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve (STR) of Erode district. As per sources, on April 22,…
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Mohali, India: The wildlife department, Ropar range, busted a poaching ring and caught two poachers with 22 live wild boars in Mohali. At 9:30am on Tuesday, the department received a tip-off about the poachers trapping wild boars. A wildlife team led by divisional forest officer (DFO) Kulraj Singh organised a raid at…
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Dimapur, India: Two women with a total of 79 red-collared doves were apprehended by the Wildlife Crime Control Unit, Wildlife Division Dimapur, during its routine market raid. The raid took place on May 7, in Lengrijan Tuesday Bazar, Dimapur. The two women are identified as permanent residents of Monsing Teron…
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Chennai, India: In an operation across Tamil Nadu, wildlife officials in April seized from different districts more than 300 monitor lizard skins meant for making the percussion instrument kanjira. At Aduthurai in Thanjavur district, state wildlife crime control bureau conducted checks and arrested one accused, 72,…
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