Maharashtra Tiger Poaching

A special task force (STF) has arrested 11 persons and detained five minors in connection with a tiger poaching case and seized tiger nails from them in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district, an official said today.

A man arrested along with three others in a tiger poaching case allegedly tried to escape from custody after assaulting forest department officials.

As the hunt for tiger Jai continued after it went missing from Umred Karhandla wildlife sanctuary near Nagpur, state Forest Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar on Tuesday said he would write to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a CBI probe into its disappearance.

It's a one of a kind cybercrime cell, unique because it focuses on tracking cases of wildlife poaching. The Melghat wildlife crime cell in Maharashtra is the first in the country under the forest department and was instrumental in arresting 34 people in one case of tiger poaching.

Last February, when a tiger was surrounded by a panic-stricken crowd in Ashta village in the buffer zone of the Tadoba Andhari tiger reserve, a trained force of the forest department was called in to control the situation.

In a landmark decision, the Maharashtra government has announced that tiger poaching cases will be investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

Maharashtra has declared war on animal poaching by sanctioning its forest guards to shoot hunters on sight in an effort to curb rampant attacks against tigers, elephants and other wildlife.

The Maharashtra government believes that 25 tigers are likely to be targeted by poachers from neighbouring Madhya Pradesh. The Forest Department in Maharashtra says that an advance of 40 lakhs has been paid to the poachers. It's not clear yet who has commissioned the deaths.

A special task force (STF) has arrested 11 persons and detained five minors in connection with a tiger poaching case and seized tiger nails from them in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district, an official said today.

A man arrested along with three others in a tiger poaching case allegedly tried to escape from custody after assaulting forest department officials.

As the hunt for tiger Jai continued after it went missing from Umred Karhandla wildlife sanctuary near Nagpur, state Forest Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar on Tuesday said he would write to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a CBI probe into its disappearance.

It's a one of a kind cybercrime cell, unique because it focuses on tracking cases of wildlife poaching. The Melghat wildlife crime cell in Maharashtra is the first in the country under the forest department and was instrumental in arresting 34 people in one case of tiger poaching.

Last February, when a tiger was surrounded by a panic-stricken crowd in Ashta village in the buffer zone of the Tadoba Andhari tiger reserve, a trained force of the forest department was called in to control the situation.

In a landmark decision, the Maharashtra government has announced that tiger poaching cases will be investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

Maharashtra has declared war on animal poaching by sanctioning its forest guards to shoot hunters on sight in an effort to curb rampant attacks against tigers, elephants and other wildlife.

The Maharashtra government believes that 25 tigers are likely to be targeted by poachers from neighbouring Madhya Pradesh. The Forest Department in Maharashtra says that an advance of 40 lakhs has been paid to the poachers. It's not clear yet who has commissioned the deaths.