India: Acting on a tip off, range forest officer Anant Dhotre and his team nabbed six poachers from Wadgaon jungle area, about 20km from Digras tehsil in Yavatmal district, in the wee hours of Saturday.
Forest officials have also seized a rifle, two live cartridges, three used cartridges, tw
India: The forest department arrested two poachers and seized a chopped head, skin and body parts of a sambar, and weapons from them at Todgarh-Raoli Wildlife Sanctuary in Bhim tehsil of Rajsamand. There were seven poachers in total, but five of them managed to escape.
Forest ranger Prema Ram
India: A gang of three, suspected to be the accomplices of forest brigand Veerappan, was acquitted in an 18-year-old tusk smuggling case on Tuesday. The case was heard in the Sathyamangalam sub-court. According to a court source, a special task force (STF) led by inspector F M Hussain nabbed the t
India: A joint team of Varanasi police and Special Task Force (STF) unearthed a gang smuggling rare species Pangolin by arresting ten persons and recovering a live creature from a hotel room in Sigra police station area of Varanasi on Sunday afternoon.
Those arrested were identified as Surendra Ku
India: An army man was detained by Jammu and Kashmir police at Srinagar Airport on Sunday for carrying elephant tusks in his baggage.
The soldier working as a cook in the army was detained at Srinagar Airport for illegally carrying elephant tusks. However, an official said that they have detained h
