India: Like other crimes, rampant rhino poaching in the Kaziranga National Park (KNP) is also a product of poor governance and weak institutional structures, observed the Rhino Task Force constituted by the Union Environment and Forest Ministry to study the problem of rhino poaching in the KNP. The
Pakistan: A team of the Sindh wildlife department seized around 150 desert lizards on a tip-off near Jamshoro on Friday evening.
Six persons, who were caught red-handed, were released after legal formalities under the provincial wildlife act, said the officials. They said that the lizards will be r
India: A 40-year-old woman was arrested by forest officials for trading wildlife products at the Sunday market area on Tamil Sangam Road on Tuesday. Officials seized five green turtle carapaces, broken carapaces pieces and 52 pangolin scales from M Chinnakaruppi, who hails from Nagamalai Pudukottai
India: Poachers have killed a one-horned rhino in Assam's Kaziranga National Park and taken away its horn, park officials said on Friday.
Park director M.K. Yadav said a rhino carcass had been recovered from the park.
This is the 13th one-horned rhino to be killed in the park this year.
"An operati
India: The officials of the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) and state forest department's wildlife crime control unit in a joint raid rescued 15 Indian softshell turtles, a threatened species, from a trader in Galiff Street on Monday.The arrested trader has been identified as Biswajit Prasad al
