Tag: poachers

Baripada: The Forest officials arrested six poachers from Kendumundi reserve forest in Thakurmunda range of Mayurbhanj district late on Saturday night. Acting on a tip-off, during night patrolling the forest ...

Baripada: Forest officials turned buyers to nab ivory smugglers in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district. Eight tusks weighing around 45 kg were seized from their possession. The poachers, who have been arrested, ...

Bhubaneswar: Poachers allegedly attacked and injured three forest squad members of the Udala wildlife range in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district late on Tuesday. The incident took place while they were conducting ...

Dhenkanal: Poaching of elephants for their valuable tusks has claimed the life of one more jumbo in Dhenkanal district. As per reports, poachers had shot an elephant at Kandhara jungle ...

Keonjhar: Incidents of poachers targeting elephants, leopards and other wild animals is rampant in Odisha. And poor management by the Forest Department and negligence of forest personnel are giving a ...

Dhenkanal: Officials of Dhenkanal Forest Division on Sunday arrested five poachers from Kapilash range and seized two deer hides, pangolin scales, four country-made guns and 100 traps from them. The ...

Khurda: The Tangi Wildlife Division officials in Khurda district arrested two poachers from Bhusandapur area near the Chilika lake on Monday and seized 13 carcasses of migratory birds from their ...

Dhenkanal: Three persons were arrested and five deer hides and two unlicensed guns seized from their possession during a raid on Padhanatangara village under Kapilasa range limits in Odisha's Dhenkanal ...

Rayagada: Police on Thursday detained 18 poachers after they allegedly shot dead a youth, mistaking him for a wild boar, inside a forest near Khaliajodi village of Kashipur block in ...

Boudh: A male elephant with bullet marks was found in Mundeswara reserve forest in Boudh on Wednesday. A group of women, from Dakapadar village, first spotted the lifeless elephant when ...