Tuesday, 23 October 2012

Poaching and seizures reported on last week

CID forest cell of Karnataka police seized a tiger skin and bone and arrested four people near Kollegal in Chamrajnagar district of Karnataka.

In Uttarakhand, two poachers were arrested in connection with killing of a tiger in Terai West Forest Division on 22nd July 2012. A leopard skin was seized and two persons were arrested by police in Haldwani, Nainital. In Bageshwar district one person was arrested with a gall bladder of Himalayan black bear. In Kotdwar, Pauri district 67kg of elephant ivory were also seized by police. In Rajaji National Park, four illegal fish poachers were arrested.

In Chhattisgarh three persons were arrested by police with a leopard skin in Raipur.

In Andhra Pradesh a person was arrested by forest department of killing a leopard in Mahbubnagar district.

Poachers were killed two rhinos in Kaziranga, Assam last week one each in Bagori and Agratoli ranges.

Tamil Nadu forest department arrested a person with 350 fresh water tortoises in Pudukkottai district.

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