Sri Lanka: Another two elephant calves which ‘Ali Roshan’ had kept in his possession on the strength of bogus documents were recovered yesterday from a land belonging to him in Aeraevvala in Pannipitiya.
The Police Media Spokesman’s Office said that the two calves were taken into wildlife cu
India: The Chittoor task force police on Sunday night and in the early hours of Monday nabbed 12 red sanders smugglers, including two notorious inter-state operators, at six different locations in the district.
Chittoor Superintendent of Police Ghattamaneni Srinivas addressing a press conference her
Bangladesh: A growing number of seizure of wild animals and birds over the last five years shows that poachers and smugglers are using Bangladesh as a route for wildlife trafficking.
The Department of Forest (DoF) and law enforcement agencies recovered 21,506 live wild birds and animals, including t
Questions have been raised as to why the new government has not yet considered disposing of the shipment of contraband blood ivory that was seized by the Sri Lanka Customs in May 2012, while being transshipped to Dubai from Tanzania.
Stock of contraband
The stock of this contraband blood ivory it
Sri Lanka: A poacher was killed during a confrontation between wildlife officers and a group of poachers at the Yala National Park at Kochchipathana yesterday. This incident took place around 2.40 p.m. Tissamaharama police said wildlife officials had been deployed to arrest poachers at Kochchipat
