CISF SI held with 3.5 kg pangolin scales

India: A combined team of Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) and Chhattisgarh Forest Department nabbed a Sub-Inspector of CISF and Security In-charge of Raipur Airport and seized scales of pangolin in Raipur from him, on Wednesday. The accused has been identified as Jitendra Koche, son of Naresh K
4 arrested for trying to sell red sand boa snake

India: Four men were arrested by Forest department officials for trying to illegally sell a sand boa snake on Wednesday. The arrest was made through a decoy operation which was set in motion after the Vigilance wing of the Prl. Chief Conservator of Forest (HoFF) received a complaint about the snak
Forest officials seize black coral, animal parts

India: In a joint operation by Maharashtra Forest Department’s Kalyan Range Forest Office (RFO) team and the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), Western Region, 250 black coral and 50 Hatha Jodi (penises of monitor lizard) were seized from a commercial shop at a residential building in Kalyan on
Leopard skin seized, five held

India:  Five persons have been arrested by the local crime branch of Sindhudurg police, while attempting to sell leopard skin. On receiving information, police laid a trap and arrested Venkatesh Raul, Nitin Suryawanshi, Kiran Sawant, Samir Gurav, and Dinesh Gurav. The accused were handed over to t