Poachers

Rayagada: Two illegally kept elephant tusks were seized by the forest department officials in the Kalyansinghpur forest range in Odisha’s Rayagada district. Two persons were taken into custody in connection with the seizure. According to…

Berhampur: A peasant was electrocuted to death when he came in contact with an electric trap laid by poachers to kill wild animals at Talasakara village under Buguda police station limits in Ganjam district. The deceased was identified…

Bhubaneswar: An inter-state wildlife smuggling racket was unearthed by the forest officials in Odisha with the arrest of 7 persons involved in the racket. The wildlife body parts seized from the possession of the arrested persons…

Bhawanipatna: A leopard skin was seized by the personnel of the Special Task Force (STF) of the Odisha Crime Branch on Thursday near the Narla Railway Station in Odisha’s Kalahandi district. Two persons involved in the smuggling of this…

Balasore: Two forest officials were seriously injured when poachers fired at them inside the Kuladiha Sanctuary near Panchalingeswar Beat in Balasore district late Monday night. Another forest official in the team had a lucky escape.…

Hyderabad: A 30-year-old constable of Greyhounds, an elite anti-Maoist force of the Telangana Police, was electrocuted to death during a combing operation in a forest area of Jayashankar Bhupalpally district. The mishap occurred on…

Nayagarh: An elephant allegedly injured by a poacher’s bullet died during treatment treatment in Ranpur Forest Range in Odisha’s Nayagarh district on Wednesday morning. According to reports, the injured elephant had a suspected bullet…

Chennai: Seven men were fined Rs 50,000 each for allegedly hunting spotted deer and selling the meat in the Denkanikottai forest division in Tamil Nadu. The accused were identified as Chellappan (65), Ramraj (31), Rajiv (31), Nagaraj…

Kolkata:  Three persons from Odisha were arrested by forest department officials of West Bengal on Monday while attempting to sell a leopard skin worth Rs 10 lakh in Madhyamgram in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district. Alerted by…

Bhawanipatna: Six persons were arrested following the seizure of a leopard hide and a python skin by forest officials in Odisha’s Kalahandi district on Wednesday. It was an inter-state joint raid by officials from Kalahandi South Forest…