Investigations & Enforcement

12+ hour, 1+ 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, 7+ 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, 21+ 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, 46+ min 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, 5+ hour ago   (11+ words) 55 live flap-shelled turtles rescued, 4 persons held in Odishas Malakngiri...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (246+ words) Five moon bears that spent decades living in cages in South Korea have arrived at their new home in Suffolk. Jimmy's Farm & Wildlife Park near Ipswich and its charity, Space for the Wild, transported the animals 5,500 miles (8,850km) to their new…...

4+ day, 11+ 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, 23+ 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, 15+ hour ago   (329+ words) A week after five orangutans were found in a reserved forest in Bhogarai, the mystery surrounding their suspected trafficking to Odisha remains unsolved. The Odisha STF is continuing its investigation, however, the people behind the alleged racket are yet to…...

4+ day, 18+ 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…...