EnvironmentPolice in West Bengal rescued a cub of the endangered Bengal slow loris, a nocturnal primate, from a motorbike on the Kalyani-Barrackpore highway and arrested two men. Links to a trafficking ring are being investigated.
EnvironmentThe Forest Department's Wildlife Crime Control Unit seized 9,046 turtles from 2021 to September this year, about 85 per cent of them since 2024; the Indian roofed turtle tops the list.
At SAWEN's first general assembly, member countries committed to intelligence-led and financial investigations and cross-border cooperation; Environment Minister Abdul Awal Mintoo said no single country can fight wildlife crime alone.
Detective police found the birds in ten plastic cages in the side box of a bus from Naogaon; the forest department says the hill parakeets come down to maize and chilli fields, where a ring traps them for sale.
CID says the two trafficked ring-tailed lemurs are now at a private wildlife centre in Gujarat, but the safari park cannot supply the evidence needed to claim them.
EnvironmentOn 8 July 2026 the Forest Department recovered a critically endangered elongated tortoise, brought for sale to Boalkhali bazar in Dighinala, Khagrachhari, from an abandoned fish drum, and said it would be released after health checks.
EnvironmentOn 2 July 2026 the Forest Department's Wildlife Crime Control Unit recovered 1,104 exotic animals, among them tarantulas, a Mexican black kingsnake, corn snakes and more than a thousand turtles, from rooftop aquariums in Rupnagar, Dhaka.
EnvironmentPolice in Vietnam's Thanh Hoa province said on 14 February 2026 that they had found two frozen adult tigers in a house basement and arrested two men on charges of illegally trading the endangered animal.
