India In a major action, Forest Department officials arrested 11 poachers and seized 60 kg of wild boar meet, huge stock of chital antlers and other material from their possession. The action was taken in Ashtabhuja area of Chandrapur on Monday afternoon.
According to sources, the Forest Departmen
India: A Nepalese citizen was today arrested here for possessing a seven-feet long leopard skin, the police said.
Dammer Rana was arrested by the Special Operations Group (SOG) from near Maharajke Park on Jhoolaghat Road, Deputy Superintendent of Police Pithoragarh Shekhar Chandra Juyal said.
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India: A joint team of police, forest department and special operation group (SOG) seized a 2.2-m long and 1.35-m wide leopard skin worth Rs 5-7 lakh in the international market and arrested one person under the Wildlife Protecttion Act, 1972.
The accused, identified as Tej Jagri, a native of Nepa
India: The air intelligence unit of the customs seized 80 star tortoises from a 49-year-old passenger at Trichyinternational airport in the early hours of Friday. The man, identified as K Zahir Hussain of Ilaiyankudi in Sivagangai district, was trying to smuggle the tortoises to Bangkok. Trade
India: The Karnataka police arrested three men and confiscated a tiger skin, suspected to be of a tigress' from the Satyamangalam Tiger Reserve (STR), from them in Yeshwantpura on January 22. The three men, Balakrishna, Mahesha and Rangaraju, are from Thalavadi in STR, Tamil Nadu. The police h
