Nagpur: In a big hard action against two wildlife gangs, the Department of Forest Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh, together with the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), Nabbed Pangolin, Tiger and Herbivore Poachers from Paoni and Deolapar.Cording to the source, the body parts were confiscated It might belong to 2-3 tigers and at least 5 Pangolins.
Other materials that have been seized include two bore weapons, horns, peacock feathers etc.
“Acting on intelligence by our staff, Range Paoni forest officials arrested three people from separate locations in the range of Paoni and confiscated more than 22kg of Pangolin scale from them.
The hunters seem to be a habit’s violator and detail where these mammals are killed are still being investigated, “Bharat Singh Hada said, Deputy Conservator, Nagpur.
RFO Ritesha Bhongade said the defendant had been identified as the Prashant Chachere and Dilip Admane, both from Kanora, and Ratanlal Madaye, Tangla.
The defendant was sent in a two-day forest detention (FCR) by JMFC, Ramtek.
“The forest team seizes a scale of 6.5KG Pangolin from Chachere while scales 14.5kg seized from the house of Milalatram Bhalavi from Ramzanghoti.
Bhalavi runs away and hunting for him,” he said.
Pangolin India (Sweet Cramsicaudata) is protected based on schedule I of the wildlife law (protection), 1972, and has the same protection as a tiger.
Pangolins is the most traded mammal in the world and is on the verge of extinction.
Pangolin hunting is rampant in Maharashtra and MP.
The Maharashtra government has even established a study group to suggest steps to save Pangolins.
In the second incident, the team from WCCB, the Central Region, Jabalpur, Maharashtra, and the Ministry of Forestry MP put a trap near the Khaawasa border on August 24 and arrested the Warkade of Sitapur Balchand in Ramtek.
The teams seized the burlap bag from the defendant where the tiger bones and herbivorous horns were found.
During the investigation, the Warkade revealed the names of the prosecutors, based on where officials arrested Roshan Uikey and Narpat Kodwate, both Pindkapar residents in Delaapar.
On Wednesday, the teams won the deer horn, two drill weapons used for hunting animals, wild boar bones, gunpowder, bullets, knives, and other materials from their homes and farms.
“More capture of possibilities,” said forest officials.