Customs officials at Hyderabad’s RGI Airport arrested a passenger arriving from Bangkok for attempting to smuggle wildlife, including a monitor lizard, a two-headed red-eared slider turtle, and 16 iguanas. The seized species were returned to Bangkok.
Vempalli Forest officials arrested the poacher, Chiranjeevi, a native of Vaddepalli, Galividu mandal of Annamayya district, for illegally hunting wild animals and selling their meat after killing them.
Sangli: Sahyadri Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra officials have claimed that one of the four detained poachers had “raped” a monitor lizard in the forest while filming the act too on the mobile phones. Four poachers were arrested for carrying weapons in the Gabha area of Gothane village in the Sahyadri Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra, informed […]
Sangareddy: A couple of birders, who were on a birding trip to Singur dam in Sangareddy district, rescued a Monitor Lizard (Juvenile) trapped in a discarded fishing net on the banks of Singur dam constructed across river Manjira on Saturday. The birders, Gopala Krishna Iyer and Ashish Kumar Pradhan, residents of Hyderabad, were shooting pictures of […]
