India: The Uttarakhand forest officials and police have stumbled upon a thriving illegal trade in endangered wildlife body parts that are being sold as religious items and immunity boosters in Haridwar’s Roorkee, officials said on Thursday.
Police raided two shops at the Roorkee main market that s
India: Tiger skin, about 11 feet long, was seized from Gariaband district in Chhattisgarh, police said on Thursday.
After the Wednesday night seizure, two people were arrested under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972.
The skin is reportedly worth millions of rupees in the international market.
The
India: Forest department officials seized two tiger claws, two teeth and a few tiger bones from the houses of two accused involved in poaching a tiger at Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve (STR) here recently.
The seizures were made following a confession from two accused Anand (28) and Siddaraj (30) of T
India More than 200 turtles were seized from two youths on the Amritsar Mail at Bandel last Wednesday.
The Indian soft-shelled turtles, listed under Schedule 1 of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, were found stuffed in gunny sacks and other bags.
The youths, who had boarded the train from Varan
India: Three persons were arrested on Monday for hunting wild animals. Two other persons managed to flee. About 150 kilograms of skinned meat of wild animals, skins of spotted dear, black bucks and blue bulls were recovered from their possession. The accused were trapped early in the morning at Bh
