India: In a horrific poaching incident in Himachal Pradesh, outlaws not only hunted down a leopard but also hacked away its four paws.
Suspicion is that the paws were sawed off for the nails which fetch several lakh rupees in the international black market, besides the hide.
The carcass was found in
India: The Wildlife Management authorities on Wednesday arrested Bavirisetty Pavan Kumar while he was allegedly attempting to sell leopard skin at Jangareddygudem bus terminus in West Godavari district.
A team of forest officials led by Kaikaluru Range Assistant Conservator of Forest (Wildlife) N. R
India: The Mir Chowk police on Wednesday arrested two persons and seized eight ivory from their possession at Kali Khaber bus stop.
Acting on a specific alert, the Mir Chowk police arrested B Narsaiah of Nagole and A Srinivas Reddy of Bholakpur when they were waiting for prospective customers at Kal
India: The government's wildlife crime control agency has seized huge consignments of live animals, ivory, tiger and leopard skins among other products and arrested 71 people in a nationwide crackdown on illegal trade in wildlife, in coordination with Interpol.
The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WC
India: Barely a week after a spotted deer fell prey to poachers on the Hyderabad Central University (HCU) campus, another deer was brutally killed with the chopped off head left near the Old Horticulture Garden on Tuesday evening.
It was Sathya Prakash, a faculty of the University, who saw the head