Rhino poacher sentenced to 7 years imprisonment

The Court of Additional Sessions Judge, Golaghat, Madhurjya Narayan, sentenced Manik Das of Sonitpur district to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of seven years and also to pay a fine of Rs 10,000 and in default of payment of fine, he will have to undergo simple imprisonment of another three months under Section 51 of Wildlife Protection Act read with (Assam Amendment) Act 2009 for killing a rhino. On January 10, 2015 one bullet-ridden carcass of rhino was recovered on the northern side of Khainala of Chibe Chapori under Sixth Addition of Kaziranga National Park.
https://nenow.in/north-east-news/assam-7-years-rigorous-imprisonment-rhino-poacher.html

Hog deer poachers convicted in Assam

A court in Darrang district of Assam had convicted the poachers for killing a hog deer near Orang National Park in February 2012.

Two tigers electrocuted and another found dead

Bodies of two tigers suspected to have electrocuted were found yesterday at Chandrapur district of Maharashtra and Katni district of Madhya Pradesh. Another tiger was found dead at Kaziranga, Assam.
http://thehitavada.com/Encyc/2017/11/8/Tiger-dies-of-electrocution-in-Chimur.aspx
http://naidunia.jagran.com/madhya-pradesh/katni-body-of-a-tiger-found-in-the-forest-of-rohaniya-buffer-zone-of-bandhavgarh-1389757?utm_source=naidunia

Section 144 imposed in North Cachar Hills district to prevent bird poaching

Dy. Commissioner of Dima Hasao district in Assam imposed Section 144 of CrPC to prevent bird poaching reported from Jatinga village. DC had banned movement of people with sticks, nets and other items used for trapping and killing birds. The DC has also banned use of flash lights, halogens and search lights in the village.
https://www.nelive.in/assam/news/probe-ordered-incident-bird-poaching-jatinga
http://www.sentinelassam.com/story/news/2/dima-hasao-dc-orders-probe-into-killing-of-birds-at-jatinga/2017-10-26/1/323959#.WfLYCWhL-M8

Bear gall bladders and other articles seized in Assam

Large quantities of suspected bear gall bladders and body parts of other wild animals were seized in a joint operation of different enforcement agencies in Lakhimpur district of Assam.
https://arunachaltimes.in/index.php/2017/10/23/wcb-sleuths-nab-two-smugglers-with-black-bear-and-tiger-organs/

Elephant killed in Assam

The carcass of an adult male wild elephant, with its tusks, trunk and tail chopped off and chunks of meat hacked off from the body, was found at Dolopa village in Assam's Sivasagar district on 21 October 2017.
https://www.telegraphindia.com/states/north-east/jumbo-carcass-riddle-180089

4 wild elephants electrocuted

In three separate incidents 4 wild elephants were electrocuted, 2 in Dibrugarh district Assam, 1 each in Coimbatore district, Tamil Nadu and Jalpaiguri district, West Bengal.

1 rhino killed in Kaziranga, two more in north Bengal

Poachers were shot dead a rhinoceros and removed its horn in Kaziranga, in an another case bodies of two rhinos killed by poachers were exhumed in Gorumara National Park, North Bengal.
https://www.nagalandpost.com/ChannelNews/Regional/RegionalNews.aspx?news=TkVXUzEwMDExMzQwNA%3D%3D

https://www.telegraphindia.com/1170422/jsp/siliguri/story_147587.jsp#.WP2n9dKGOM8

Meat of leopard consumed in Assam

People at Baputigarh Murari village of Dibrugarh- Demow border just a couple of days back killed a leopard and consumed it.
http://thenortheasttoday.com/forget-beef-ban-the-need-is-leopardban/

Poachers killed two rhinos

Last weekend poachers killed two rhinos, one each in North Bengal and Kaziranga, Assam.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Lone-rhino-of-Mahananda-poached/articleshow/49716850.cms
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/flora-fauna/Poachers-kill-another-rhino-in-Kaziranga/articleshow/49713995.cms

Rhino killed in Assam

On 26 October 2015 night, poachers killed a rhinoceros and removed its horn at Majuli in Jorhat district of Assam.
http://thenortheasttoday.com/poachers-chased-one-horned-rhino-from-kaziranga-killed-it-in-majuli/

Two tiger skins and bones seized

In two separate incidents two tiger skins and bones seized in Madhya Pradesh and Assam on 13 October 2015. In Madhya Pradesh, skin of a tiger suspected to have killed in Satpura tiger reserve had seized by forest officials from a village in Chhindwara district. In Assam, forest officials of Kaziranga tiger reserve arrested two persons including a forest guard with a tiger skin and bones.
http://www.india.com/news/india/two-arrested-with-tiger-skin-in-assam-628978/ 
See the video of Assam incident: http://www.mid-day.com/videos/two-arrested-with-tiger-skin-in-assam/698726

One more rhino killed in Kaziranga

Poachers armed with sophisticated night-vision enabled riflescope killed one rhino at Kaziranga national park on 2 October 2015. Park officials said that the poachers however, were unable to chop off the horn as forest staff retaliated with heavy firing. The gang comprised three to four poachers and they were also armed with AK series rifles.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Kaziranga-lost-another-rhino-to-poachers/articleshow/49207726.cms

Conviction rate of rhino poachers are poor

As per official data, a total of 214 poachers were arrested from different districts of the Assam from 2009 to 2013 (the break-up being 18 in 2009, two in 2010, 19 in 2011, 115 in 2012 and 60 in 2013), yet not a single poacher could be convicted during these four years. The jinx, though, was broken late last year with the conviction of two poachers of Kaziranga. This year too, two more poachers of Orang National Park were convicted in July. But still, the conviction rate has been too poor to be any deterrent to poaching.
http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=sep3015/at057

Large-scale deforestation along the Assam-Meghalaya border

Large-scale deforestation triggered by illegal logging and timber smuggling has pushed the Rani forest landscape along the Assam-Meghalaya border to the brink. The reserve forests of Rani, Jorasal and Kawashing under Kamrup East Forest Division are spread over an area of 45,981 hectares, where sal and teak were once predominant. Massive destruction inside the reserve forests  has also triggered exodus of wild elephants into the nearby fringe villages in search of food even during the monsoon season. Local people attribute this worsening man-elephant conflict to human-induced depredations in the forests.
http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=sep0115/city058

Elephant killed in train accident in Assam

An elephant was crushed to death at Nagapathar in Rangapara area where Dekargaon-New Jalpaiguri passenger rammed into the herd of elephants when they were crossed the rail tracks on 3 August 2015 morning.
http://www.assamtimes.org/node/14429

Three poachers get 7 years imprisonment in Assam

Three poachers, who would committed crimes at Nameri Tiger Reserve, were convicted by a district court.
The Sonitpur additional sessions judge, S Das, has sentenced Arjun Basumatary, Bijoy Basumatary and Debeswar Pogag to seven years rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on each.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/guwahati/Three-Assam-poachers-get-7-year-RI/articleshow/48242444.cms

Rhino poachers convicted in Assam

Two poachers were convicted and sentenced to two years imprisonment and Rs. 25,000 each for killing a rhinoceros in Orang National Park of Assam in January 2011. Please see the judgement as follows:

Clouded leopard skin seized in Assam

Manas Tiger Reserve officials arrested a person and seized a clouded leopard skin at Barpeta district of Assam on 6 May 2015.

Rhino killed in Assam

Poachers have killed yet another rhino in Kaziranga National Park and took its horn on 16 April 2015.
http://www.assamtimes.org/node/13429