Forest officials seize 150 partridges

  India : The Forest officials on Thursday seized 150 partridges which had been brought for sale here. The officials are on the look out for two women, who allegedly brought the birds to the market and those responsible for catching them in forest areas. Ravindra Kumar, Assistant Conservator of For
Man jailed for keeping shahtoosh Shawls

  India: A man accused of possessing five Shahtoosh shawls made of Tibetan Antelope, an endangered animal, has been sentenced to one-year imprisonment by a Delhi court. Additional chief metropolitan magistrate Devendra Kumar Sharma held Arif Qureshi, who was having a shop at Delhi Haat in South Del

Customs sleuths at the Cochin International Airport have arrested two Japanese nationals while attempting to transport a collection of exotic species in their baggage. The arrested have been identified as Murayi Yojka, 21, and Shibi Ottawa, 24, who reached the airport here on Saturday evening to boa
Poachers caught on camera, held

India: Forest department officials have caught three of the four suspected poachers near Ulavi-Shivapura forest range in the Dandeli-Anshi Tiger Reserve in Uttara Kannada district. They were produced before a court on Friday morning. The fourth suspect is absconding, police said. The suspects were c