Authorities have seized three wild animal trophies from the house of Venkattram Reddy, chairman of Deccan Chronicle Holdings Limited, a famous newspaper publishing company in India. The animals were found during a house search by a CBI team who informed the Banjara Hills police.
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South Africa's minister of water and environmental affairs Edna Molewa announced that they will be making petition for a one-off sale of some of its $1 billion stockpile of rhino horn at the next CITES meeting in 2016. "South Africa cannot continue to be held hostage by the syndicates slaughtering
IFAW's study: Criminal Nature: The Global Security Implications of the Illegal Wildlife Trade – has revealed how wildlife trafficking generates a staggering $19 billion per year for criminals... and is linked to other organised criminal activity such as terrorism and drug smuggling...
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JAIPUR: The police on Monday arrested two truck drivers for negligently carrying 84 emus, the flightless birds of Australia, leading to the death of 50 of them in Tonk'sNiwai area. It is suspected that the emus died of suffocation as they had been stuffed into the truck along with vegetables despite
A Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) officer numbers elephant ivory tusks on July 3, 2013 after a container destined to Malasyia full of tusks was seized in a private yard in the Changamwe area, having come from Uganda at the ports of Mombasa. A total of 775 tusks weighing 1294 kg was seized. (Ivan Lie
