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, Aug 20 (IANS) Assam Police have rescued six Black Palm Cockatoos from Dholaikhal village -- along the India-Bangladesh border -- in the state's Cachar district, forest officials said.The Australian parrots were later handed over to forest ...

A red kangaroo rescued by Cachar Forest Division from Lailapur. | Cachar Forest Division via Mongabay India On March 16, around ten days before Assam went to the polls, routine checks were on at the checkpoint in Ghiladhari in the Golaghat district of the north-eastern state. When the police stopped a private vehicle, they did not expect what they saw – macaws, silvery marmosets and golden-headed tamarin, all exotic animals, usually found in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil....

by Nabarun Guha on 20 April 2021 There have been multiple instances in the last one year when exotic animals have been seized by different enforcement agencies across northeast India. Since there is a complete ban on trade in Indian species, smugglers have shifted to illegal trade of exotic species, which has led to disastrous global environmental consequences. The consignments are sourced from Southeast Asia and Europe, from where they are sent to major Indian cities. The trade in exotic anim...