India:  The forest officials have arrested two poachers from Badamala range forest in Sambalpur district during a raid in here. Acting on reliable inputs about the presence of the accused persons in the forest, the officials reached the forest and conducted a raid. During the raid, the official

India: In another man-animal conflict, a man and his wife were injured in wild boar attack at Barakandha village under Mahakalapada Forest Range in Kendrapada district on Wednesday. The locals later nabbed the boar and lynched it to death.Following the incident, forest personnel seized 30 kg boar me

India: Periya Range forest officials have arrested four persons from Mananthavady for keeping in their possession elephant tusks weighing 20kg and trying to sell them. The arrested are Vinod,30, Raghavan,39, Raju,34, and Gopi, 38 -- all from Kattiyeri Colony. The forest officials had found a one-and

India:  Kenichira police in Wayanad have arrested three people for allegedly stealing camera traps installed in vested forests under Chethalath range for tiger monitoring. The camera traps had caught the trio poaching a deer. The accused have been identified as Sumesh (41), hailing from Padichi