The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) under the Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change has been awarded the Asia Environmental Enforcement Award 2020 under the award category Innovation ."WCCB getting this award .
Just two days ahead of the World Pangolin Day , personnel of the Guwahati-based Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) of the Ministry of Forest, Environment & Climate Change (MoEF&CC), seized a.
HC comes down hard on poaching, greed of man
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It elaborates on elephant poaching while transferring the batch of petitions to the CBI
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The judges said it was not a case of poaching for livelihood, but trading on wildlife, driven by sadistic pleasure of man. File photo
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It elaborates on elephant poaching while transferring the batch of petitions to the CBI
“Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible nature, unaware that this nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshipping,” the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court quoted Canadian Astrophysicist Hubert Reeves in its elaborate order transferring a batch of elephant poaching incidents that took place prior to 2015 to the CBI.
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With the 12 released, 40 more tortoises will soon follow.
February 17, 2021
The Indian star tortoise (
Geochelone elegans), one of the most beautiful tortoises in all of Asia, is sadly disappearing from the India landscape. Escalating illegal poaching of the tortoise has led to its rapid decline over the past 20 years. Though there are multiple reasons for the dwindling population, the primary culprits are poachers and smugglers seeking to fulfill the demand of the illegal international pet trade. The magnitude of the problem is staggering.
In recent years, roughly 25,000 star tortoises have been seized each year at Indian airports alone – an astounding number that still represents only a fraction of the tortoises poached from the wild. Once removed from the wild, the future for these beautiful animals is usually grim. However, this does not always have to be the case. This is the story of 51 tortoises saved from the black market and successfully returned to