Hanoi, Dec 7 (DPA) A Hanoi restaurant owner has been detained for making medicinal paste from the bones of rare wild animals, including tigers and monkeys, police said Monday.
Tran Trong Binh, head of Hanoi’s environmental police department, said police had detained two men Sunday evening at a Hanoi restaurant.
Officers found an 80-litre [...]
Ballabgarh (Haryana), Nov 18 (ANI): A notorious poacher Bheema, was arrested in a joint operation late on Tuesday evening near Ballabhgarh in Haryana.
Bheema was wanted by several central and state agencies in connection with a tiger poaching racket prevailing [...]
New Delhi, Nov 17 (IANS) A tiger poacher who was absconding since last year was arrested Tuesday from a Haryana town, officials said.
Bheema, who was nabbed by the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) and the police from Ballabhgarh area of Haryana, has been absconding since he was wanted in a poaching case in July 2008.
At [...]
Kolkata, Nov.11 (ANI): With China observing the year of the Tiger in 2010, conservationists across the globe fear the endangered mammal would be threatened more, as trade in tiger goods is likely to rise considerably.
Chinese superstition [...]
New Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) Seven people, including two Tibetans, have been arrested for illegal trafficking of wildlife products into China. Two tiger skins, two leopard skins, tiger bones and their body parts have been recovered from them, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said here Monday.
Charan Das, Amit Kumar, Ranjit, Sadhu and Ram Swaroop [...]
New Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) Seven people, including two Tibetans, have been arrested for illegal trafficking of wild life articles into China and Tibet. Two tiger skins, two leopard skins, tiger bones and their body parts have been recovered from them, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said here Monday.
Charan Das, Amit Kumar, Ranjit, Sadhu [...]
Yangon, Oct 7 (Xinhua) Myanmar’s 22,000 sq km vast Hukuang Tiger Reserve situated in the northern province of Kachin has now less than 100 tigers, a report said Wednesday.
The fall in the tiger population was attributed to the killing of their preys for human consumption and trading as well as to the use of tiger [...]
