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 …
Nagpur: Though Maharashtra has become the first state to digitize the trial court orders and put it in public domain, a review of judgments delivered in the last six years shows that of the 147 court orders under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 (WPA), only 17 have recorded convictions, or …
Concerned over the rising cases of wildlife crime, Wildlife Crime Control Bureau, a multi-disciplinary statutory body working under Government of India, has asked all the State Governments and UT administrations to set up an exclusive ‘Wildlife Crime Control Unit’ (WCCU) in their police and Forest Departments in order to check …
Come Diwali and it is not just apparel and electronic goods doing brisk business online. It is owls as well. Rummaging through difficult-to-find data and trends, the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau's (WCCB) cyber wing has noticed how the smuggling of owls picks up during Diwali-the nocturnal bird is said to …
The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) in collaboration with Wildlife Crime Control Bureau would be soon launching a Management Information System (MIS) based tiger tracking system. This was stated by the Environment Minister, Prakash Javadekar while addressing the 10th meeting of the National Tiger Conservation Authority on Tuesday. MIS based …
Dudhwa National park have for the first time adopted the zero tolerance approach for the wildlife crimes in a bid to check Wildlife crime. Talking to “The Pioneer Deputy Director Dudhwa VK Singh said that this was the first time that they had adopted the approach which he said would …
Lesser-known wild species like pangolins, monitor lizards, mongoose, spiny-tailed lizards, and mariner turtles are falling prey to poaching and quietly vanishing from the country, wildlife experts say. "While the threat posed by illegal wildlife trade to tiger and Indian rhinoceros are well publicised, many of India's lesser known species are …
Forest Dept. should build a strong case against poachers, they say The recent conviction of seven persons accused of poaching animals in the Nagarahole National Park has been described as a welcome development that augurs well for wildlife conservation. Though innumerable cases are routinely registered by the Forest Department, a …
The Assam Government has launched a novel DNA indexing system for the one-horned rhinos in Assam to give a boost to the conservation efforts of the pachyderm, which are falling in numbers in the State due to rampant poaching. Assam Forest Minister Rockybul Hussain said that the Government has decided …
KOLKATA: Illegal trafficking syndicates of wild animals in Dum Dum, Baguiati and Rajarhat areas have resurfaced once again after the traffickers lied low for some time following the arrest of a trader from Baguiati in January. Only two days back around thousand Hamilton turtles, listed vulnerable by IUCN (International Union …
Hearing on a Public Interest Litigation on Thursday, the Uttarakhand High Court has directed the State Government to strengthen the State Forest Department’s anti-poaching cell while leaving on the Chief Minister, the decision regarding complaints against the principal chief conservator of forests and chief wildlife warden SS Sharma remaining apathetic …
Jackal cubs for sale: 35,000 a pair. Picture to be updated soon. Welcome to the world of tech-savvy poachers who are now using social networking sites and mobile applications to trade in wild animals, including threatened and protected species. The message about the jackal cubs flashed last week on a …
Rhinoceros in the wild may be pushed to extinction by the end of this decade, if unrelenting poaching continues at the present rate, experts have warned. The poaching of black and white rhinoceros has soared in last six years. While as many as 13 rhinos were slaughtered in 2007, that …
Assam will set up four wildlife police stations to exclusively deal with the problem of rhino poaching and other wildlife crimes. The jurisdiction of these special police stations would be over the Kazairanga National Park, the Manas National Park, the Rajiv Gandhi Orang National Park and the Pabitora Wildlife Sanctuary. …
Concerned over growing incidents of poaching of rhinos, five Asian rhino range nations in a resolution asked India to take measures, including increased level of security to wildlife parks, to protect the vulnerable species from extinction. At the meeting of the five countries — Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Nepal …
Madhya Pradesh is a crucial link in the international poaching corridor straddling Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Nepal and Tibet. But even as tiger hides from the state's reserves are being seized even in faraway Nepal, the MP forest department is reluctant to lodge cases of poaching. With the big cat population …
Advocating greater coordination between intelligence and enforcement agencies to curb illegal wildlife trading networks , the Central Bureau of Investigation Director Ranjit Sinha on Monday highlighted the agency’s role in detecting organised syndicates of poachers operating in Sariska Wildlife Park during 2002-05. Mr. Sinha, while inaugurating the Integrated Investigative Capacity …
Illegal wildlife trading networks have cross-border linkages and there is need for greater coordination between the intelligence and law enforcement agencies of different countries to deal with this threat, CBI Director Ranjit Sinha said here today. He said the CBI had played an important role in tackling poaching by revealing …
SHILLONG: The Wildlife Trust of India and Wildlife Crime Control Bureau, New Delhi, have taken strong note of the recent detection of poaching of endangered species of animals in the State and sought a report from the Meghalaya forest officials on the action taken in this regard. The forest staff …
Even as a CBI team has arrived to investigate the increasing incidents of poaching of rhinoceros, officials have claimed to have found that poachers are recruiting young men from villages on the fringes of Kaziranga National Park. "We have been told that a number of young men, including minors, have …
Assam, famed for its national parks and wildlife sanctuaries, faced one of its worst years in wildlife management as it lost an estimated 800 animals, including one-horned rhinos, during 2012. Among the positives in the wildlife sector was a healthy population of Royal Bengal Tiger in Kaziranga National Park with …
