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Snakes on a plane highlight Thailand-India trafficking: NGOVenomous vipers found in checked bags on a flight from Thailand to India illustrate a "very troubling" trend in wildlife trafficking driven...
Why Zimbabwe is culling elephants — and distributing the meat, againZimbabwe is set to cull at least 50 elephants in the Save Valley Conservancy due to overpopulation, as the reserve holds around 2,550 eleph...
India’s tiger boom at risk: Trafficking resurges amid soaring demand for tiger bones in China & VietnamThe resurgence in tiger poaching in India, driven by rising demand for tiger bones in traditional medicines in China and Vietnam, threatens...
Thais send smuggled tortoises home to Tanzania as evidence against suspected wildlife traffickersMore than a hundred baby tortoises, mostly dead, have been returned to Tanzania from Thailand as evidence in a wildlife smuggling case. The...
Elvish Yadav snake venom case: ED files money laundering case, to question the YouTuber soonSnake Venom Case,Elvish Yadav: The Enforcement Directorate has initiated a money laundering case against YouTuber Siddharth Yadav, also kno...
Mumbai customs seize diamonds, gold hidden in noodles, body partsCustoms at Mumbai airport seize diamonds and gold worth Rs 6.46 crore, concealed ingeniously in passengers' belongings. Four individuals ar...
Nigeria destroys seized pangolin parts to deter wildlife traffickingNigeria has burned four tonnes of seized pangolin scales, valued at $1.4 million, the first time it has publicly destroyed seized wildlife ...
Tarantulas from Poland, Tamarins from Thailand seized in ChennaiThe end price of exotic creatures is very high. But enforcement agencies, in recent years, have stopped assigning any monetary value to wil...
DRI busts exotic birds trafficking syndicate, arrests 2 for smuggling 22 macaws from BangladeshThe joint operation was carried out in coordination with the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) and the Customs Department at the Kolkata...
Over 9,000 arrested for wildlife poaching between 2012-2018: Environment ministry
A multi-million dollar international smuggling hub for endangered lizardAccording to intelligence, price for each living Gecko reaches over Rs 80 lakh depending upon size and weight. This makes the animal too vu...
- Northern West Bengal: Dreamland for animal body parts traders
Though a signatory of CITES, India is still one of the major 26 global exporters of animal body parts to the main five trade routes.
Marine engineer among 13 held for smuggling Indian pangolins to ChinaIn a major breakthrough Madhya Pradesh forest department on Monday arrested 13 people including a Kolkata-based marine engineer and a corpo...
National Green Tribunal has received 7768 complaints: Prakash JavadekarThe number of cases received since the establishment of National Green Tribunal till January 31 this year is 7,768, Prakash Javadekar said.
Wildlife trade surfaces in Bengal againIllegal trafficking syndicates of wild animals in Dum Dum, Baguiati and Rajarhat areas have resurfaced once again after the traffickers lie...
Poachers killed four tigers together at MelghatTill now the poachers had revealed and the officials believed only one tiger had been killed at the place.
- Several wildlife smuggling rackets may be operational
The roots of illegal trafficking of animals in Dumdum and Baguiati are deeper than what meets the eye.
- Despite evidence, MP refuses to book tiger poachers
Even as Maharashtra forest department officials are fighting to ensure that gangs of poachers they arrested remained behind bars, TOI learn...
- Over 1,30,000 people call for justice after murder of Costa Rican turtle defender
More than 130,000 individuals from 150 nations have signed a petition to Costa Rican embassies and consulates calling for the arrest and co...
- 27 leopard skins seized in 45 days
From the border outposts of north Bengal to the small towns of Uttarakhand to the remote forest-rich district of Gondia in Maharashtra, 27 ...