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384 tigers killed in India in last 10 years, reveals RTIAs per a 2014 assessment, India has the highest number of tigers in the world at 2,226, according to the website of the Ministry of Environ...
Five poachers arrested, tiger skin seizedFive suspected poachers were arrested today and a tiger skin was seized in Barpeta district by forest department officials. According to fo...
Pilibhit forest a safe haven for poachersInnocuous-sounding words such as “andarwala” and “baharwala” have been found to refer to contraband such as tiger bones and skin respective...
- Tiger poacher Hanumant nabbed in Odisha
In yet another big catch, the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), Delhi, on Friday morning nabbed tiger poacher Hanumant from Odisha, wan...
- Tiger poaching: Then and now
Human beings need to develop compassion for nature in general and wildlife in particular.
- Poachers kill tiger and bear; consumed their meat too
Poachers accused of killing a tiger near Masondi in Ghatang range of East Melghat did not only kill the tiger and a sloth bear by laying st...
- 2 poacher supporters get bail
Two persons who provided shelter to the organized Bahelia tiger poachers were granted bail on Wednesday by judicial magistrate first class ...
Notorious tiger poachers among 9 arrested in PuneA team of Melghat forest officials netted nine tiger poachers from Pune in the wee hours of Sunday.
Maharashtra to announce CBI probe in tiger poaching casesChief Minister Prithviraj Chavan is all set to announce a CBI inquiry into tiger poaching cases unearthed in Vidarbha between October 2012 ...
At 46, tiger deaths may beat last year’s highWith 46 tiger deaths in just 7 months this year in the country, most of them due to poaching and several shrouded in mystery, the Global Ti...
- Experts want CBI to probe tiger poaching case
Poachers killed 10 tigers between 2002 and 2004 in Sariska in Rajasthan wiping out the entire population of big cats in the tiger reserve.
Not 5, poachers kill 9 tigers in 2 monthsA day after TOI reported that five tigers were killed by organized gangs of tiger poachers belonging to the notorious Baheliya community fr...
Two tiger poachers nabbed, confess to killing five tigers in MelghatThe two, who were nabbed from Mansar, are part of a 30-member gang, which claims to have killed five tigers in the region over the last one...
- Three suspected poachers nabbed in Corbett Tiger Reserve
Amid reports that tigers are on target of poachers, Corbett Tiger Reserve (CTR) administration has arrested three suspected poachers from B...
- Hunt the hunters and get Rs 5 lakh reward, Raj Thackeray says
Returning here after spending two days at the popular Tadoba in Chandrapur district, Raj Thackeray announced a reward of Rs 5 lakh to any f...
'Action against tiger poachers will not be considered a crime'Taking a stern stand against poachers, Maharashtra government today decided that action taken by forest authorities against those caught wh...
- Poachers strike: Tiger chopped into 10 pieces in Maharashtra
Throwing an audacious challenge to the state forest department, the poachers have struck once again, killing a tiger in Chandrapur forest r...
- Tiger poacher convicted to 3 years rigorous imprisonment
A court in Khatima, Udham Singh Nagar district of Uttarakhand had sentenced notorious tiger poacher Birbal alias Totha Ram, a resident of P...
- Notorious tiger poacher Totha Ram arrested
A notorious tiger poacher from Panipat, Birbal alias Totha Ram, was arrested in Banbasa at Champawat district of Uttarakhand in a joint ope...
Heat is on: Three tigers fall preyThree more tigers have been killed this May by bullets, iron trap and poison - one each in Bihar, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh.