India: 241 rare and endangered tortoises have been seized by revenue intelligence officials from a hotel here, an official release said here on Saturday.
Acting on specific intelligence inputs that a gang operating in Chennai and Kolkata would attempt to smuggle some Indian star tortoises to B
India: Five Gaboon vipers, a pair of albino African pythons, three marmosets and one meerkat was among a large consignment of exotic animals which was seized by Assam Police and the forest department at the city's Jorabat area near the Meghalaya inter-state border on Saturday. This is the largest se
India: Police today said they have arrested three persons for allegedly possessing rare snake species sand boa here and trying to sell them.
Acting on a tip-off, Crime Branch officials laid a trap at Katai Naka on the Kalyan-Shil Road late last evening and nabbed the trio who had come to sell the
India: Custom officials in Assam’s Guwahati apprehended a smuggler red-handed while he was looking to make sale on a leopard’s skin and bones. The officials seized a 7.7-feet-long leopard skin along with five kilograms of bones. Acting on a tip-off, the officials intercepted the accused, who had
India: A four-year-old male tiger was found dead in a farm in the Sariska forest area in Rajasthan's Alwar district, officials said today.
The tiger was killed yesterday after it got his neck caught in the noose of a wire placed by a farmer to stop wild animals from damaging his crop, Chie
