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11 Myanmarese and 3 Thai nationals have been arrested on suspicion of poaching sea cucumber, coral and other ornamental fish in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands reports the Press Trust of India
Monday, February 8, 2010 at 13:52 6 members of a gang believed to be involved in smuggling Red Sanders logs from Kadapa and Nellore to Tamil Nadu using stolen vehicles over the past 3 years have been arrested, reports The Hindu
Sunday, February 7, 2010 at 13:34 Police in Hyderabad have arrested 3 people for attenpting to sell a Leopard skin, reports the Times of India, while Yahoo News reports the arrest of a man in Jammu for posession of a Leopard skin
Saturday, February 6, 2010 at 17:23 Police have arrested 5 people on suspicion of smuggling Red Sanders after 26 logs were seized near G.V. Satram reports The Hindu
Friday, February 5, 2010 at 15:41 2 white rhinos in the Willem Pretorius nature reserve were apparently darted and drugged so their horns could be removed using a power-saw or grinder, reports the Times Live
Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 17:30 More than 700 African Grey Parrots were confiscated at Douala airport in a shpment set to be loaded onto an Ethiopian Airlones flight. It follows an earlier seizure of 300 parrots in November, reports the Born Free Foundation
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 at 18:26 Kavoor police have arrested two people after live snakes and turtles were seized from them, reports Mangaloremithr
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 at 12:26 14 people found in posession of 194 abalone in Robben Island nature reserve have been arrested by Western Cape police, reports Times live
Monday, February 1, 2010 at 14:35 Gansbaai police and Marine and Coastal Management officers who confronted 60 people believed to be involved in poaching abalone were shot at and were pelted with petrol bombs and stones, reports the Independent online
Monday, February 1, 2010 at 14:26 2 men were arrested and more than 11,000 abalone seized following a raid on a house in Durbanville reports Eyewitness News
Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 10:48 In separate incidents, police in Russia have seized 1.4 tonnes of sturgeon from a truck in Khabarovsk and 9 kg of caviar from the restuarant carriage of a Moscow-Tashkent train, reports RIA Novosti
Friday, January 29, 2010 at 18:16 A man convicted of smuggling sperm whale teeth and elephant ivory into the US faces up to 5 years in jail, reports the Boston Herald
Friday, January 29, 2010 at 16:00 A dead Tiger at Pench National Park is undergoing further forensic tests to determine if it had been poisoned, reports the Indo Asian News Service
Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 12:00 A commercial diver, asked by state biologists to monitor abalone populations in Oregon, but who persistently abused his fishing permit quotas has been fined USD41,000 and sentenced to 40 days in jail, reports the Mail Tribune
Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 10:34 The dehorned carcass of a rhino has been found in Kaziranga National Park. More than 40 rhinos were poached in national parks in Assam in 2009, reports PTI
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