Two arrested with elephant tusks in Delhi
4 months, 1 week ago

Two arrested with elephant tusks in Delhi

Hindustan Times  

The Delhi Police has arrested two people from Dhaula Kuan with two elephant tusks — the trade of which is banned under national and international law — weighing 1.8kg, officers aware of the case said on Monday. A team of the forest and wildlife department was then called to inspect the seized tusks, and based on their complaint, a first information report under various sections of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 was registered at the Delhi Cantonment police station on Friday. Deputy range officer from Wild Life Department Tandon, who was part of the team, said trading of wildlife trophies, including tusks, animal skulls and other body parts, is strictly prohibited under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. “The two ivory elephants tusks weighed around 1.8 kgs in total and since elephants are schedule 1 species and protected under the Wildlife Protection Act, we asked the police to lodge an FIR under the act,” he said.

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Forest dept says only 1kg ivory stolen, will destroy entire stock
3 months ago

Forest dept says only 1kg ivory stolen, will destroy entire stock

New Indian Express  

CHENNAI: The forest bench of the Madras High Court on Friday instructed the state chief wildlife warden to initiate proceedings to destroy the large quantity of elephant ivory stock in the forest department’s possession. The directions were issued following a confirmed ivory theft reported in Vandalur Zoo, wherein a temporary worker stole two pieces of tusk weighing 1 kg, and …

Elephant tusks stolen from Vandalur zoo, four held
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Elephant tusks stolen from Vandalur zoo, four held

New Indian Express  

CHENNAI: Elephant tusks from the stockpile at the Vandalur Zoo were allegedly stolen by a temporary worker employed there. One is a sub-adult male elephant tusk measuring just over one foot and another one is a tush of a female elephant.” During interrogation, the arrested confessed that they got the tusks from Satish alias Appu, a casual employee working with …

Fight against Ivory: How Indian law and activists are ending ivory trade for good
4 months, 1 week ago

Fight against Ivory: How Indian law and activists are ending ivory trade for good

India Today  

Imagine a world where elephants roam freely, their majestic tusks glinting in the sun, unshackled by the cruel clutches of the ivory trade. Says Niharika Kashyap, Advocate and Animal rights Activist The fight against Ivory: How Indian laws and activists are ending the ivory trade for good THE SUPERPOWERS OF THE WILDLIFE PROTECTION ACT Under this act, there’s a total …

3 of family, neighbour trampled to death by wild elephant in C’garh: Officials
4 months, 2 weeks ago

3 of family, neighbour trampled to death by wild elephant in C’garh: Officials

Hindustan Times  

Raipur: At least four people, including three of a family, were killed after they came under attack from a wild elephant in Chhattisgarh’s Jashpur, officials aware of the incident said. Officials said that the incident took place in the Gamhriya area of Bagicha Nagar Panchayat on the intervening night of Friday. Jitendra Upadhyay, divisional forest officer Jashpur division, said that …

Karnataka to send eight trained elephants to Andhra to drive away wild tuskers
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Karnataka to send eight trained elephants to Andhra to drive away wild tuskers

Hindustan Times  

The Karnataka government on Thursday agreed to send eight Kumki elephants along with mahouts to Andhra Pradesh to help it drive away wild elephants that have been wreaking havoc in the forests of Chittoor and also north Andhra districts of Srikakulam and Vizianagaram. Andhra Pradesh deputy chief minister and forest minister Pawan Kalyan being felicitated by Karnataka forest minister Eshwar …

Seven arrested for illegal trade of elephant tusks in Odisha
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Seven arrested for illegal trade of elephant tusks in Odisha

New Indian Express  

BARIPADA: In a major success, the Forest department arrested seven persons and seized from their possession five elephant tusks in a late night decoy operation in Kaptipada area on Tuesday. The arrested accused include Nauru Sai of Bidyadharpur village, Saimal Singh of Gobarasole village, Nityananda Gagrai and Birabhadra Singh of Mahulapankha village in Mayurbhanj district, Ajay Barik of Kaduani village, …

Northeast Customs department seizes 28 kg of ivory from Assam
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Northeast Customs department seizes 28 kg of ivory from Assam

Hindustan Times  

Amid concerted efforts to combat wildlife smuggling and protect the country’s biodiversity, the customs department on Wednesday confiscated 27.992 kg of ivory and apprehending one individual from Assam. With recent amendments to the Wildlife Protection Act effective from 1 April 2023, customs officers have been empowered with enhanced authority to combat domestic illegal wildlife trade. In the past year, the …

Assam STF seizes 15.2kg elephant tusks near Arunachal border; poacher on the run
8 months, 1 week ago

Assam STF seizes 15.2kg elephant tusks near Arunachal border; poacher on the run

Hindustan Times  

The Special Task Force of Assam Police on Wednesday recovered 15.2 kg of illegally smuggled elephant tusk during an anti-poaching operation near Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border. The STF launched an operation near the state border in collaboration with the Dhemaji police based on specific information. In February this year, the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau in a joint operation with the local …

Suspected poacher held in Assam with 3.7kg elephant tusk: Officials
10 months, 1 week ago

Suspected poacher held in Assam with 3.7kg elephant tusk: Officials

Hindustan Times  

Silchar: The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau in a joint operation with the Assam Police on Friday night arrested a suspected poacher from the Tamulpur district with elephant tusks weighing 3.731kg, officials said. WCC officials said that they informed the local police after getting specific information about the suspected poacher who was in the Pub-Kachukata locality to sell the item. A …

Eight including Forest Dept.’s anti-poaching watcher arrested for attempting to sell tusk
1 year, 1 month ago

Eight including Forest Dept.’s anti-poaching watcher arrested for attempting to sell tusk

The Hindu  

The Forest Department has arrested eight persons, including an anti-poaching watcher attached to Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve, for attempting to sell elephant tusk. A piece of tusk and a fake tusk made of wood were seized from the eight men, who landed in custody in a joint operation by members of the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau, the Tamil Nadu WCCB, and …

Five arrested with body parts of rhino, tiger, elephants in Assam
1 year, 4 months ago

Five arrested with body parts of rhino, tiger, elephants in Assam

Hindustan Times  

The Assam police’s special task force in collaboration with the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau arrested five poachers and smugglers of wild animal body parts from Assam’s Nagaon district. Police said that this was one of the biggest seizures of animal body parts in Assam this month. According to the police, the STF and WCCB team also seized a large amount …

Elephant carcass exhumed from private estate in Kerala, 4 held
1 year, 5 months ago

Elephant carcass exhumed from private estate in Kerala, 4 held

Hindustan Times  

KOCHI: Forest officials in Kerala exhumed the carcass of a wild male elephant from a private rubber estate based on a tip-off in Thrissur district’s Vazhakkode in a suspected case connected to ivory trade on Friday Kodanad forest range officials arrested 1, detained 3 in connection with an attempted ivory-trade case. ) When forest officials in Machad range excavated the …

Wildlife Crime Control Bureau seizes fake elephant pearls, 369 star tortoises
1 year, 6 months ago

Wildlife Crime Control Bureau seizes fake elephant pearls, 369 star tortoises

The Hindu  

The Tamil Nadu Forest and Wildlife Crime Control Bureau had a busy June in city with authorities seizing 369 star tortoises, two elephant tusks, and intercepting trade of “fake elephant pearls” in separate cases over the last three weeks. Four persons were remanded for trying to sell an article claiming it to be elephant pearls on June 19, said E. …

Carcass of wild elephant with tusk trimmed found in Bihar’s Kishanganj
1 year, 8 months ago

Carcass of wild elephant with tusk trimmed found in Bihar’s Kishanganj

Hindustan Times  

A wild elephant with one of its tusks trimmed was found dead at Dhanyola village under Dighalbank in Bihar’s Kishanganj along the Indo-Nepal border on Sunday, forest officials said. “Forest officials along with local police have been camping at the site since Sunday as six elephants are roaming around the dead elephant,” he said adding that prima facie it appears …

Tusker strolls around Bhubaneswar city, gives fright to people
2 years, 1 month ago

Tusker strolls around Bhubaneswar city, gives fright to people

Hindustan Times  

Over 60 forest and police officials of Bhubaneswar had a tough time reining in a tusker on Wednesday after it strayed into the city walking around the Lingaraj temple before heading for habitations not very far from chief minister Naveen Patnaik’s house. Forest officials tranquillised the tusker and released it in the Chandaka elephant sanctuary near Bhubaneswar. The movement of …

Odisha: Forest department officials arrest elephant poacher accused in 8 cases
2 years, 4 months ago

Odisha: Forest department officials arrest elephant poacher accused in 8 cases

Hindustan Times  

Forest department officials in Odisha on Friday arrested a 40-year-old criminal involved in at least eight cases of elephant poaching at a time when the state is under fire for its ‘inaction’ over the rising cases of the incidents. Taking cognizance of the recent killing of a young tusker in the Athagarh division, the Union environment ministry had sought a …

Tuskers at peril: Poaching haunts Odisha’s forests
2 years, 4 months ago

Tuskers at peril: Poaching haunts Odisha’s forests

Hindustan Times  

On July 29, a 25-year-old tusker in Narasinghpur East range of Athagarh forest division of Cuttack district with at least five pellet injuries in its head and ear died of organ failure. The government has also constituted a special investigating team comprising forest and criminal investigation department officials to probe rising elephant deaths and allegations of coverups, but there seems …

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