India: Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Ramnagar, today sentenced four poachers to three years imprisonment and a fine of Rs 10,000 each for trying to poach a tiger after entering the Corbett Tiger Reserve last year.The sentence came after the convicts, who were taken into custody after they we
India: Following the spurt witnessed in the illegal multi-billion dollar wildlife trade, the Centre has issued an advisory to the states urging them to sensitise officers for prosecuting people involved in such activities under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA). The Wildlife Crime
Pakistan: As the highly-lucrative trophy hunting season continues in Gilgit-Baltistan, police arrested a man for illegally shooting an ibex. Noor Khan hunted an ibex measuring 25 inches on the horn on Monday in Bar Valley of Hunza-Nagar district, a resident told sources on Tuesday. According to ano
India: The Kaziranga National Park, a World Heritage Site about 250 km from here, lost another rhino to poachers on Friday. Poachers killed a female rhino in the Bherberi area under the park's Kohora forest range late on Thursday evening. The de-horned carcass was found by the park officials on Thu
India: In yet another case of poaching, a tiger skin was seized by officials of West Betul Division in Madhya Pradesh bordering Melghat forest. Four persons have been arrested so far. "The skin is one-year-old and seems to be of a full-grown tiger, perhaps male. The tiger is suspected to have been p
