Network Of Wildlife Trade Busted BRT Forest Staff Expose Ungulate Poachers' Racket
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First published in Sanctuary Asia,
Vol. 30
No. 8,
August 2010
Three persons have been arrested in this connection. A few poachers, who managed to escape by hoodwinking the forest officials three months ago, after they were caught with their prize of spotted deer and sambar are now in the custody of the department. This has revealed a big network of poachers, which acts in the guise of visitors in all the major national parks in the State.
The department squad, which managed to trace a call made to a mobile phone by the poachers from a village Kogahalli near K Gudi helped them to nab three persons, namely Shahid, a resident of Chikmagalur district, Tanveer of Mysore and Touseef from Chikmagalur. They were nabbed from their houses. Read the full report here.
Source: Subhash Chandra N S, Deccan Herald, Bangalore.
