India: The Baikunthapur forest officials on Sunday seized dried sea horses and arrested a smuggler from New Jalpaiguri area. The consignment packed in six plastic bags was around 55 kilograms that were brought from Chennai and plan to smuggle at Jaigaon along Indo- Bhutan border.
On tip-off forest s
India A suspected smuggler was caught with a leopard skin, 2,100 pangolin scales and a kg of monitor lizard meat in Haridwar on Thursday in a joint operation by the Rajaji Tiger Reserve and NGO Traffic.
Of the eight pangolin types, two are critically endangered while the rest range from endangered
India: In a joint operation executed by the Baikunthpur Forest Department’s Belakoba Range and the Wildlife Department’s Task Force, a smuggler was arrested with a live pangolin and a kilo of pangolin scales from Phansidewa Market, Siliguri.
According to Belakoba’s Ranger & the Task Force’
India: The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) recently found that smugglers are using the postal service to sell parts of endangered animals. They stumbled upon feathers of the grey jungle fowl being smuggled out by the hundreds.
These feathers with eyespots are used as fishing lures and were bein
India: The RMC Yard police have arrested five persons and recovered deer and leopard pelts that they were trying to sell in the city.
On a tip off, a team of police raided a place on Friday and arrested Ajaz (28) and Edwin (26) from Linarajapuram, John (30) from R.S. Palya, Mohammed Zubair (30) from
