India: More than 600 prohibited birds were rescued during an operation by the UP Special Task Force (STF) from a market in Nakkhas today, the police said. Seven people of a gang engaged in selling the birds were arrested  they said. Three of their associates are at large. Acting on a tip-off, the S

India:  A team of Forest officers from Banderdewa Forest Division on Wednesday seized several wildlife meat and articles during a day-long search operation carried out at Midpu forest check gate, Doimukh from vehicles coming from different regions covering Kurung Kumey, Kra Daadi, Upper & Lower Su

India: Poachers from Arunachal Pradesh are active in the forests of Singhbhum and may have had a nasty role to play in the recent beheading of a 35-year-old tusker. Forest officials in Chaibasa, the headquarters of West Singhbhum district, 80km from here, have joined the dots between the arrest of s

Pakistan: A court in Gilgit-Baltistan has sent three persons to prison and imposed fine of Rs13 million for killing Markhors here. The accused persons were involved in the killing of three Markhors. The Gilgit-Baltistan Wildlife Department Magistrate Aftab Mehmod on Friday sent them to jail for