India: Forest officials on Thursday arrested six persons for killing a leopard by using a snare in Mancherial forest of Luxittepet range on January 14, after a sniffer dog identified one of them.
Mancherial forest divisional officer J Venkateswara Rao told TOI, “Poachers set up a sna
India: Security guards of the University of Hyderabad (UoH) on Wednesday chased and caught 12 persons as they were trying to flee with the carcass of a brown hare. However, three accused managed to escape.
The black-napped hare or the Indian brown hare is very common on UoH campus and recently,
India: A 47-year-old man was caught trying to poach spotted deer and wild rabbits in the Mettur reserve forest on Friday. He was, however, let off with a fine of Rs 1 lakh. According to forest officials attached to the Mettur forest range, they found G Manickam, of Nattamangalam near Mettur, enter t
India: Four persons trying to sell a red sand boa snake have been caught in a trap and arrested by forest officials in a joint operation with Peoples For Animals (PFA), Wardha unit, near Gopuri Square on Tuesday.
Ashish Goswami, A PFA activist, said they came to know that a group in the city was try
India: Acting on a tip-off, a special squad of forest personnel arrested six poachers while the latter were laying livewires for poaching boars at Kutulisinga reserve forest under Dhandatopa range in Angul district.
The accused were identified as Narendra Nayak (24), Ramju Nayak (49), Panchanan Naya
