India: Five men were arrested for hunting a deer for meat at Ponmalai area in Perianaickenpalayam forest range on Sunday. A team of forest department field staff and anti-poaching watchers had apprehended J Arul, J Durai, J Krishnan, J Velusamy and G Suren, all hailing from Gandhi Nagar at Thimmamap

India: The Amravati sessions court has acquitted two tiger poachers — Bhajan Hotel Dhurve and Shiri alias Prakash Bisan Chavan (35) — in Dhakna tiger poaching case inside Melghat Tiger Reserve (MTR).  Both the accused, belonging to Baheliya community from Katni

India: A 35-year-old man was arrested with two leopard skins in Himachal Pradesh's Shimla district, police said Tuesday. Santokh Singh, a resident of Pumlaai in Kumarsain, was arrested Monday night from Rampur tehsil in the district, Superintendent of Police (SP), Shimla, Omapati Jamwal said. Two le

India: Six people were arrested with carcasses of five civet cats — protected under Schedule II of the Wildlife Protection Act — at Chandapara station near Bongaon on Saturday evening. Local DFO Niranjita Mitra confirmed the development and said that the six accused, who are being questi