India: Four poachers, including a woman, working for an inter-state gang were arrested with 250 parrots — a protected species under the wildlife Protection Act, 1972 — from inside the Pipli forest area under Azim Nagar Kotwali police station in Rampur district on Wednesday. According to police,
India: The directorate of revenue intelligence (DRI) sleuths have arrested two women for smuggling a whopping 406 Indian star tortoises, a vulnerable species declared endangered by International Union for Conservation of Nation (IUCN) at Vijayawada railway station on Tuesday.
The DRI sleuths, o
India: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) arrested two persons from Thursday and seized considerable quantity of elephant tusk from them.
The youths were carrying the ivory in three pieces which weighs about 12 kilos, sources said.
The arrested Saiful Islam hails from Assam and Santosh
India: Forest officials of the Northern range of Kaziranga National Park have arrested a poacher involved in last week's rhino killing, recovered the horn and seized the arms and ammunition allegedly used in the incident.
A 20-year-old male rhino was killed by poachers at Polokata Tapu in the sixth
India: The authorities have nabbed five people at Daryapur in Amravati for trying to illegally sell a 4.5 kg red sand boa (Eryx johnii).
Called 'Mandul' in Marathi, the near-threatened species is said to have great demand in international and domestic markets due to superstitions over it bringing go
