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Uttarakhand: Wildlife smuggler nabbed with 2 leopard skins in Uttarkashi
Updated : 2 years ago IST
Taking to its social media handle, Uttarkashi Police posted on X, "Major action by Uttarkashi Police on wildlife smuggling. A joint team of SOG, Purola police station and WCCB arrested a smuggler smuggling leopard skin. 2 skins were recovered."
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Maharashtra: DRI seizes 28 lakh peacock tail feathers at Nhava Sheva Port
Updated : 2 years ago IST
In an anti-smuggling operation, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) Mumbai Zonal Unit on Wednesday seized approx 28 lakh peacock tail feathers that were being smuggled from India to China, by means of concealment and misdeclaration in an export cargo declared as "Door Mat made up o
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Zoological Society of London, Aaranyak facilitate Nepal team's exposure tr
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
A team of protected area managers and community leaders from Nepal visited Kaziranga and Manas Landscape in Assam from February 4 to 9 as part of an exposure trip to experience best practices related to protected area management (species and habitat), community-livelihood work and human-wild
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Assam: Majuli SP instructs village defence members on wildlife protection;
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
The Majuli police conducted a field gear distribution program on December 11 to make Village Defence Party (VDP) members feel comfortable while carrying out their responsibilities towards biodiversity conservation, SP Majuli said on Friday.
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CBI raids Jaisalmer-based firm over suspicion of export of Shawls containi
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday registered a case on a complaint from the Customs Department against a Jaisalmer-based firm on the allegations of illegal export of Shawls and Stoles suspected to contain guard hair of Shahtoosh or Chiru (Tibetan Antelope) which is a protected an
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Wildlife crime investigation training for newly recruited foresters conduc
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
A three-day Wildlife Crime Investigation training programme has been organised for the newly recruited 15 foresters at the Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve concluded on Thursday.
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Assam: Forest department seizes rhino horns, elephant tusks, tiger bones;
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
The forest department in Assam has seized a huge cache of smuggled animal body parts from the Manas National Park and arrested five suspected poachers on Friday.
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Eight arrested with four leopard skins in J-K’s Srinagar
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) seized four leopard skins and apprehended eight people from Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir involved in the illegal wildlife trade, said DRI officials on Sunday.
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TN forest officials confiscate more than 100 rose-ringed parrots
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Rose-ringed parrots have been declared a protected bird under the Tamil Nadu Wildlife Protection Amendment Act 2022, making it a punishable offence to breed or sell these species of parrots.
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DRI detains 4 persons with 2 leopard skins in Delhi: Officials
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) detained four persons in the national capital and recovered 2 leopard skins from their custody, officials said on Thursday.
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Bihar: Crocodile beaten to death after it kills 14-yr-old in Vaishali, pro
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
A video that went viral on social media purportedly showed the huge reptile being pulled out of the water by a group of men, who and beaten with sticks and rods by a group of men.
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J-K: Camera trap confirms presence of snow leopard at Kishtwar National Pa
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
The Wildlife Protection Department said that camera traps installed before snowfall in the National Park have been retrieved and multiple images of snow leopards
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