Cauvery Sene office-bearers staged a protest in front of the office of Assistant Commissioner , urging the district administration to stop illegal sand mining at Kodlipete.

Subhash Chandra N S, Bangalore, DH News Service:

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ERODE: Sathyamangalam unit of the Communist Party of India has alleged that illegal mining of sand is going on near Bhavani Sagar dam.

A release says on the Moyar river bed, near forest area, as many as 25 lorries are employed to illegally mine sand. It says as much as 150 lorry loads of sands are being transported after passing through check posts.
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Western Ghat Task Force President Ananth Hegde Asisara has said that government has accepted the recommendation of the Task Force to stop mining of iron ore and Manganese in Western Ghats, which is an ecological hotspot.

New Delhi: Illegal trade in protected birds continues unabated with the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau officials seizing 70 live birds including parrots and munias meant for sale. Alexandrian parrots and black headed munias were seized from a locked room of a rented house in Daryaganj area in central Delhi, WCCB official Ramesh Pandey said on Wednesday.

SALEM: Salem Corporation seized a large quantity of magnesite stones which were being illegally mined from its land in Chettichavadi on Tuesday.

One of the rare parrots of the world, Lear

Ukrainian customs said Monday its officers had seized 250 tortoises that a passenger had tried to smuggle across the former Soviet republic's eastern border aboard a sleeper train.

THE State Assembly on Monday witnessed heated exchanges between PWD Minister Durai Murugan and his predecessor O Panneerselvam over the irregularities in sand quarrying
As the charges and counter-charges over the sand quarrying reached a crescendo both of them hurled personalised charges against each other, which were later expunged by Speaker R Avudaiappan

June 22: Mud snakes and star tortoises from Anantapur and Kadapa districts are being smuggled out of the state for a neat profit.
Unscrupulous traders from Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Chittoor, Nellore, Kadapa and Anantapur in the state have been buying mud snakes weighing three kg for Rs 3 lakh and star turtles with stripes for Rs 4 lakh.