Chennai top node in tortoise trafficking network, says study thehindu.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thehindu.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Researchers recorded 268 incidents involving poaching or illegal trade of tortoises and freshwater turtles within India or originating from India between 2013 and 2019. Live or dead tortoises/hard-shell turtles were seized in at least 118 incidents. These incidents included more than 21,000 hard-shell turtles and a big chunk of these seizures containing live tortoises/hard-shell turtles were made in Bengaluru.
Nagpur: With seizures of 172 red sand boa snakes in the last five years, the illegal trade has put the near-threatened reptile species on the brink of.
172 incidents of seizures of red sand boa recorded from 2016 to 2021: WCS-India report thehindu.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thehindu.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The aim of the symposium was to encourage open dialogue on illegal wildlife hunting and trade (IWHT), develop a collective understanding of pressing issues, challenges, and possible opportunities to combat it, and facilitate collaborations