India: Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) recovered 4.5 metric tonnes (MT) of red sanders logs worth Rs 3.15 crore, from Mundra port. The logs were being illegally exported and had been concealed in bags of rice. Acting on a tip-off from a unit, the DRI raided at Mundra and found the red sand
India: CID wildlife forest cell officials raided Datta Peeta Ashram of Sri Sri Sri Guru Dutta Swamiji at Hoskerehalli and found skin of two blackbucks and three spotted deer.
The forest cell said a case will be booked at Chennammanakere Achukattu police station.
Blackbuck is an endangered species pr
India: Recovery of three more carcasses of rhinos sans horn during the last 24 has added to woes of the flood-ravaged Kaziranga National Park (KNP) prompting the state forest minister Promila Rani Brahma to tender an apology before the people of Assam.
Park sources informed that a female rhino and i
India: At least three persons were arrested today by the forest personnel near Digapahandi in Ganjam district for allegedly poaching a pangolin. The forest personnel have seized an adult dead pangolin from them. The poachers were identified as Sukadeb Raita, Dhoba Raita and Jateswar Raita of Purun
India: A one-horned rhino cow and her calf were killed by poachers inside the Kaziranga National Park, said park official on Wednesday.
Park officials recovered the carcasses of the female rhino and its calf on Wednesday morning from Bagori range of the park. "The horn of the female rhino was missin