In 2019, the illegal wildlife trade reached staggering levels. Pangolin scales and ivory were being trafficked in massive quantities from Africa to Asia, exposing a network of crime syndicates operating at an industrial scale. The sheer volume of these shipments marked a disturbing milestone, one that revealed the global reach …
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) is the key international agreement regulating trade in wildlife. It works through a system of trade controls based on biological and international trade data of species. Trade regulations also affect local people as many rural households, …
Ananya Dutta KOLKATA One of the accused in the theft of eight exotic monkeys from the Alipore Zoological Garden on August 9 was remanded in police custody for 10 days here on Sunday. Sujoy Das, alias Bubai, was apprehended from his Dum Dum residence late on Saturday evening and produced …
Ananth Krishnan Joint expert working group to combat global warming through reforestation BEIJING: India and China have agreed to set up a joint expert working group on the environment, which will explore how the two countries can combat global warming through reforestation. China adds an estimated four million hectares of …
Ananth Krishnan BEIJING: India will on Wednesday call on China to increase its efforts to clamp down on trade in tiger parts even as Beijing mulls lifting a trade ban, a move conservationists say will deal a fatal blow to India
How much would a two-headed snake fetch? While the Dharwad police say that it could fetch nearly Rs 80 lakh in the international market, their first information report (FIR) states that it could be sold for just about Rs 10,000. Six persons comprising two separate teams were arrested by the …
The City Market police raided three lodges in their limits recently and recovered ivory pieces, skins of fox and python and two-headed snake, all valued at Rs 74.50 lakh. The police arrested seven persons, while five other accused fled. Acting on a tip off, the police raided Navarang lodge on …
Soft shell turtles are among the most threatened groups of freshwater animals that are in need of urgent conservation attention. In Kerala (South India), two species of freshwater turtles, the Indian black turtle or Indian pond terrapin, Melanochelys trijuga coronata (Schweigger, 1812) and the Indian Flap-shelled turtle Lissemys punctata punctata …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Just about twenty days after the city zoo lost its huge sand boa, the Government Ayurveda College Research Centre at Poojappura too has lost its red sand boa. The boa was smuggled out of its cage - under lock and key - from a room, which was also locked, …
NEW DELHI: Forest preservation, curbing poachers and relocation of forest-dwellers were the three major challenges before the government, Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said here on Tuesday.
Mumbai A passenger was arrested on Wednesday by the Customs at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, Sahar. According to the Customs officials, Thomas Ignatius Fernandes was in possession of three Lemurs, an engdangered species of monkeys, found in the regions around Central South Africa. Fernandes arrived in a Thai Airways …
The Red Sand Boa, an endangered snake, is in danger, due to rampant trafficking in recent times. A few farmers in Kanakapura, Hiriyur, Chitradugra and Doddaballapur have started rearing snakes, especially Red Sand Boa also known as
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) secured an agreement in 1989 among its member states to ban the international trade in ivory. This disruption of the international ivory market was intended to reverse a sharp decline in the African elephant population, which resulted from widespread poaching for …
June 22: Mud snakes and star tortoises from Anantapur and Kadapa districts are being smuggled out of the state for a neat profit. Unscrupulous traders from Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Chittoor, Nellore, Kadapa and Anantapur in the state have been buying mud snakes weighing three kg for Rs 3 lakh …
RABINDRA NATH CHOUDHURY BHUBANESWAR The fall of monarchy in Nepal has had its fallout in the 12th-century Jagannath temple at Puri, nearly 65 km from here. The fabled shrine is now running short of musk, which is used in some rituals during deities
BHUBANESWAR: The police today seized ivory weighing 3.5 kg and held seven persons in this connection here. The incident has re-established that ivory smuggling is thriving in Orissa. Two years back, a huge haul of 14 kg tusk was seized by a joint squad of the Crime Branch and Wildlife …
ROURKELA: Officials of Jarda range under Bonai forest division accompanied by Gurundia police recently recovered two elephant tusks worth over Rs 10 lakh. Six persons allegedly involved in wildlife poaching were arrested. Reports said Jarda range office was tipped of about the plan of the poachers to dispose of the …
