India: Police and forest staff in a joint operation arrested 20 red sanders smugglers belonging to Tamil Nadu and seized 23 logs from them in Railway Kodur forest area in the district on Wednesday.
According to reports, acting on a tip-off, the joint team conducted a raid at Revuladinne of Desetti
Kenya: The government is holding 137.679 tonnes of ivory and 1.519 tonnes of rhino horns, new statistics have shown.
Environment CS Judi Wakhungu released the statistics on Wednesday following an inventory that was commissioned on July 21 and completed on August 27, 2015.
The project has seen the c
India: Two tuskers aged around 25 and 30 were found poached in M.M. Hills Sanctuary on Monday sending shock waves among wildlife conservation circles as it had the stamp of professional killers.
The elephants were shot, their trunks chopped off, and tusks removed. The incident took place near Garkek
India: Officials of the forest department and a team of policemen from Bilaspur seized more than 21 tonnes of red sandalwood from a warehouse near Bilaspur on Wednesday.The accused, Rejender, who is a history sheeter, owns the factory that makes handicrafts from sandalwood, according to police. Two
Pakistan: The officials of the Wildlife Department foiled a bid to smuggle hundreds of birds from Punjab to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Friday, a senior official said. Divisional Forest Officer (Wildlife) Abdul Halim Marwat said that acting on a tip-off, he directed the personnel at the border checkpoint
