Investigations & Enforcement

7+ hour, 40+ min ago   (368+ words) Wildlife bureau to share technical inputs with STF on orangutan trafficking The Times of India Bhubaneswar: After conducting an initial field visit, the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau, which was tasked with examining the possible international trafficking angle behind the mysterious…...

19+ hour, 38+ min ago   (249+ words) The Statesman Five baby orangutans turning up in an Odisha forest should not be treated as an oddity of the animal kingdom It is a warning about the reach of international wildlife trafficking and, potentially, about India’s place in…...

21+ hour, 32+ min ago   (478+ words) View all posts by Theresia Sufa → BOGOR – The government is taking serious steps to return five orangutan babies found in a forest area in India after they received treatment. Forestry Ministry public relations and foreign cooperation bureau head Ristiano Pribadi…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (602+ words) Nawee Changpirom has spent years working to rescue trafficked wildlife in Thailand, but even he can sometimes hardly believe the creatures he has found: leopards, hornbills, and once an anteater. "We even found living corals hidden in a ceiling," he…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (246+ words) Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has constituted a five-member technical committee to oversee the welfare and care of five baby orangutans rescued from a casuarina forest in Balasore district earlier this week. The critically endangered primates, which are not native to…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (318+ words) Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Forest Department on Sunday constituted a five-member technical committee to oversee the welfare and upkeep of five rescued orangutans currently housed at Nandankanan Zoological Park. Experts from leading wildlife and zoological institutions have been brought on board…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (311+ words) The committee comprises experts from reputed wildlife and zoological institutions and will provide specialised technical guidance on the care of the animals. The panel was constituted following the rescue of five live orangutans from the Baleshwar Forest Division on September…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (1277+ words) How did five infant orangutans, belonging to a Critically Endangered species that are native to only Indonesia and Malaysia, end up in the forests of Odisha? Where are they now, and what does their future hold? The Wire breaks this…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (644+ words) Five infant orangutans rescued from a forest in Odisha have raised serious questions about illegal wildlife trafficking and India’s growing demand for exotic animals as pets. The animals, aged between six and eight months, were found by villagers in the…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (127+ words) Malkangiri: Six people were arrested with 352 pangolin scales in Odisha’s Malkangiri district, an official said Sunday. The operation was conducted on the Padmarigi-Pandripani Road Saturday, Malkangiri DFO Sai Kiran DN said. The seized scales weighed around 2 kg, he said, adding…...