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 Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) has finally been given a slush fund for the nondescript amount of Rs 10 lakhs for gathering inputs on smugglers and poachers who have played havoc with Indian wildlife during the last decade. The sanction of this longawaited fund has brought the WCCB on …
Like tigers, endangered leopards too are battling for survival with as many as 160 already dead so far since this January in the country against 290 last year. The trend is not recent phenomenon. In the last 12 years since 1994, India has lost atleast 3,189 leopards, according to an …
The hunter has once again become the hunted. But this time it's the agile leopard that is on the radar of poachers as vigilance has tightened around the illegal trade in tiger parts across India, say wildlife experts. The leopard's skin and bones are equally in demand in the international …
Biodiveristy theft, especially the illegal trade in wildlife contraband products including tradi- tional medicines, has risen sharply in recent years. The Indian Wildlife Crime Control Bureau worked closely with Inter- pol and wildlife agencies from across 18 countries in February to check this smuggling. Nicknamed Operation Tram, this month-long operation …
With China gearing up to mark 2010 as Year of the Golden Tiger when the demand for the animal parts and derivatives are expected to shoot up, forest reserves which are home to the big cats in India have been put on high alert against possible poaching. According to the …
THERE is little connection between an ultraviolet-ray light sourced from Australia and clumps of fish meat with bones carefully picked clean, but together the two form a perfect gift for the Capital's unusual guests -- two baby crocodiles. Poached from Tamil Nadu's Hogenakkal Falls and rescued from the poacher's luggage …
Almost 400 conches worth several crores were seized from the ongoing Trade Fair on Sunday. Four people working with the Tamil Nadu and Orissa stalls were arrested in connection to the illegal trade under which the conches were being brought from the southern parts of the country to Delhi and …
Coimbatore: To prevent incidents of poaching and poisoning and to save the remaining population of tigers, the Ministry of Environment and Forests proposes to bring in amendments to the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972. This was stated by Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh here on …
Smuggled Over 200 Tiger Skins, 1000 Leopard Skins Abroad New Delhi: A day after a 39-year-old man suspected to be involved in tiger poaching and supplying animal parts to buyers in western countries was arrested in a joint operation between Gurgaon police and Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), the police …
THE Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) on Saturday nabbed three poachers with iron traps in Panna Tiger Reserve. All three belonged to the Pardhi community. "These people had come from Maharashtra and would have tried to trap a tiger or a deer," said a WCCB official. There are currently two …
It has been revealed that the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) has not been approached by the state government to probe a sensational tiger poaching case in Goa reported some months ago in Keri-Sattari forest. The WCCB dismissed reports in a section of the press (not Herald) that it had …
The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), which was set up to check organised poaching, has not been approached to probe a sensational tiger poaching case in Goa, though the state's forest department has made no headway in seven months. The WCCB dismissed recent reports in the local media that it …
New Delhi: Illegal trade in protected birds continues unabated with the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau officials seizing 70 live birds including parrots and munias meant for sale. Alexandrian parrots and black headed munias were seized from a locked room of a rented house in Daryaganj area in central Delhi, WCCB …
Nagpur: Concerned over the deteriorating situation in the Chandrapur forests, where a number of tigers are reported to have disappeared, the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has written to Mahararashtra Chief Secretary Johny Joseph citing a letter by B Majumdar, former Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (PCCF), Wildlife seeking his …
BHUBANESWAR: The suspected killing of a Royal Bengal Tiger and the recent Maoist onslaught at Similipal has prompted the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) to take note of the situation. A top WCCB official today met Chief Wildlife Warden BK Patnaik and proposed capacity building measures for both police and …
New Delhi: The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau and the Tamil Nadu Forest Department, working with Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), on Sunday seized skins of a tiger and a leopard in Dindigul, Tamil Nadu. While one tiger was found dead in Pilibhit and another in Ranthambhore on April 4, a …
New Delhi: Ten tigers in Kaziranga, Assam, and seven in Kanha, Madhya Pradesh, have died since November 2008. An alarmed Ministry of Environment and Forests has deployed teams from the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) to investigate into these deaths. While one team reached Kaziranga on Wednesday, another one is …
