India: The pangolin is gifted with a unique defence mechanism of rolling into a ball that protects it against predators, but is helpless against better equipped poachers.The toothless mammal, also called scaly ant-eater, was the most traded species in the country last year.A recent study by TRAFFIC
India: In a major haul, forest officials on Tuesday seized six leopard skins and several nails of the animals in Nabarangpur district and arrested five persons in this connection."Four of the skins are of adult leopards. The remaining two belong to leopards aged 18-24 months. The value of leopard sk
India: Wildlife officials arrested a poacher and his aide and seized two country-made guns from him in Baisilipali in Mahanadi wildlife division on Friday. The forest personnel apprehended him red-handed while attempting to kill a wild boar.According to divisional forest officer (Mahanadi division)
Nepal: Illegal poaching and smuggling of rare species have massively gone up in Bajura district of late.
According to sources, poaching and smuggling of endangered species are on the rise in Martadi, Dahakot, Manakot, Toli, Kailashmandu, Kanda, Rugin, Chhatara and Dogadi among other dozens of VDCs i
India: Deftly working on inputs provided by the New Delhi-based Wildlife Crime Control Bureau and the Wildlife Protection Society of India, West Champaran police on Tuesday arrested two poachers and recovered complete skin and bones of two fully-grown Royal Bengal tigers from their possession. Betti
