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Forest officials nab three for frog catching frogs [1]

Forest officials arrested three persons and detained one Tata Mobile vehicle for allegedly involved in catching frogs at Gaonkarwado-Usgao on June 7 at about 12.30 am. According to reports, arrested ones include Thomas Sebestiao and Patrick Pacheco (both from Raia, Salcette) and Anand Chandwadkar from Bethora-Ponda and recovered 70 frogs from them. They have been arrested under Wild Life Protection Act, 1972. Frogs are in demand in many restaurants and hunting is done specially during the monsoons.

Publication Date: 
08/06/2008
Herald (Panjim) [2]
Tags:
Frogs [3], Wildlife Management [4], Wildlife Act 1972 [5], Goa [6]
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