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Illegal poaching

30 Jan 2021

Illegal wildlife poaching case: 8 leopard pelts, 38 bear biles seized in J&K

The joint raid conducted by WCCB, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Wildlife Warden and local police led to one of the largest seizures made in recent years. Prakash Javadekar, Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change took to Twitter to applaud the team of WCCB for their success. Wildlife animals like leopard, bear and musk deer come under Schedule I of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.

Royal Bengal tiger

23 Jan 2020

Royal Bengal Tiger skin recovered in Kolkata in joint operation

Acting on a tip-off, the officers of Wildlife Crime Control Bureau, Wildlife Crime Control Cell and West Bengal Forest Directorate conducted a joint raid and recovered an old skin of Royal Bengal Tiger. The officers also arrested three persons in possession of the tiger skin.

01 Jun 2019

Lion cub, 3 rare white-headed langurs rescued in Kolkata

A lion cub and three rare white-headed langurs were rescued from Belghoria Expressway in the northern suburbs of Kolkata, West Bengal, in the wee hours of Saturday (June 1).

02 Mar 2017

Wildlife agency seizes huge consignments of live animals

It said that the operation witnessed overwhelming response from states of Assam, Meghalaya, Maharashtra, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, Uttarakhand, Bihar, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Gujarat, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh.

29 Dec 2015

"Bio-diversity hit by ignorance, low income of forest people"

Ignorance coupled with dwindling income level of people living in the fringe areas of forests, has put enormous pressure on the balance of biodiversity, deputy director of Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), Abhijit Roychowdhury, said here today.

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