India: Two tiger poachers were arrested with nearly 20 kilogram of bones and a skin of the wild cat in Uttar Pradesh's Bijnor, a wildlife body today said.
The arrests were made after a night-long joint operation conducted by Wildlife SOS and the Special Task Force (STF) of the UP
India: Personnel of the local forest division have taken into custody the kingpins of an organised wildlife poaching racket while making a seizure of raw spotted wild boar meat and hides from the protected areas.
The racketeers, Mangal Munda and Matu Munda, used to trap and kill the wild boar and
India: Acting on a tip-off, a team of the forest department, Kalyan Government Railway Police (GRP) and Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) arrested a man from a lodge near Kalyan railway station and recovered more than 50 black pond turtles from him, of which four were already dead. According to t
India: The BSF, bordering Indo-Bangladesh border of south Bengal frontier, today seized over 100 kilos of tortoise bones, meant for smuggling across the border and north India, and arrested four people, three of them from Uttar Pradesh, from West Bengal's Malda district.
Acting on inputs the BSF tro
India: The forest department's wildlife crime control bureau arrested two primary government schoolteachers for allegedly trying to sell four Tokay geckos.
A Tokay gecko is a species of Asian lizard characterised by orange spots on the skin and a shrill croak.
The reptile is found in rain forests, p
