India: The MP forest department’s special task force (STF) arrested 39 people for poaching three tigers, four leopards and 200 wild boars, busting a major poaching network in the Pench-Kanha corridor in Seoni and Balaghat districts.
The arrested people include four tantrics, 14 middlemen and 21 po
India: Two adult elephants were killed and another injured in two separate incidents in Assam’s Goalpara and Nagaon districts close on the heels of three others being killed two days ago in Hojai district.
An elephant died and another was injured by a goods train when they were crossing a rail lin
India: In a major breakthrough, notorious absconding tiger poacher Kuttu alias Rahul Gulabsingh Gondthakur (30) was nabbed in Lakhimpur-Kheri, bordering Nepal, in a joint operation by Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) and Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) on Tuesday evening.
On January 21 t
India: In a bizarre twist to the demonetisation aftershocks, two witch doctors have been arrested for allegedly instigating villagers to kill tigers for their paws, saying they could cast magic spells to "rain money in new currency".
Seven suspects have been arrested from Seoni district in the past
India: Just days after two men with four pods containing bear bile were apprehended near Doiwala, the forest department has arrested another man with two pods of Himalayan black bear bile in Rishikesh.
Pankaj Singh, a resident of Rudraprayag was arrested on Sunday. Days before, Dushyant Singh and Ra
