Global Treaties & CITES

11+ hour, 2+ min ago   (152+ words) The Punjab Wildlife Department on Sunday intensified its province-wide crackdown against illegal hunting,trafficking and unauthorized captivity of protected animals and birds.According to the department,13,730 cases of wildlife crimes have been registered since February 2024 while FIRs have been lod.....

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (701+ words) NEW DELHI, Sept 19 — Five baby orangutans abandoned in an Indian forest have exposed a “massive” exotic wildlife trade, with traffickers smuggling increasingly rare species into the country, experts say. They warn of a growing multi-million-dollar trade in endangered animals, including…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (312+ words) Home » Foreign Link, Eight-State Hunt: Odisha Minister Says Orangutan Syndicate Will Take Time to Uproot Five baby orangutans should never have been swinging in a casuarina forest in Odisha’s Baleshwar district. They are not Indian animals. They belong in the…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (677+ words) You must have seen pictures of the baby orangutans at the Odisha zoo and gushed at how cute they are. But the apes were rescued from a smuggling attempt, and were likely separated from their mothers and their natural habitat....

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (699+ words) Five baby orangutans abandoned in an Indian forest have exposed a "massive" exotic wildlife trade, with traffickers smuggling increasingly rare species into the country, experts say. They warn of a growing multi-million-dollar trade in endangered animals, including apes smuggled through…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (620+ words) More than 100 exotic animals, including axolotls, leopard geckos, tarantulas and pig-nosed turtles, were seized during coordinated raids targeting six individuals suspected of illegally selling or possessing wildlife. The National Parks Board (NParks) said on Wednesday (Sept 16) that 101 specimens were recovered…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (375+ words) The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has secured a five-year prison sentence for a Taveta man convicted of dealing in elephant tusks valued at Ksh350,000. The man was convicted of dealing in a trophy belonging to a critically endangered species, contrary…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (897+ words) The Orangutan mystery prameyanews.com Somewhere between the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra and a windswept casuarina forest on the Odisha coast lies a journey of thou sands of kilometres that five baby orangutans somehow made. What happened along the…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (116+ words) The five young orangutans found abandoned in a casuarina plantation in Odisha’s Balasore district. Much of what else moves through this trade could already be thriving, undocumented, in India’s rivers and wetlands, such as the red-eared slider. Limits of downstream…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (391+ words) The discovery last week (Sept. 8) of five baby orangutans in a reserve forest in the Ranakantha area of Balasore district in Odisha is a clear indication that trafficking of wildlife is thriving along India’s eastern seaboard. South India has been…...