India Environment Portal | News, reports, documents, blogs, data, analysis on environment & development | India, South Asia
Published on India Environment Portal | News, reports, documents, blogs, data, analysis on environment & development | India, South Asia (http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in)

Home > News > Kaziranga: Gangs ‘hiring local men’ to poach rhinos > Kaziranga: Gangs ‘hiring local men’ to poach rhinos

Kaziranga: Gangs ‘hiring local men’ to poach rhinos [1]

Even as a CBI team has arrived to investigate the increasing incidents of poaching of rhinoceros, officials have claimed to have found that poachers are recruiting young men from villages on the fringes of Kaziranga National Park.

"We have been told that a number of young men, including minors, have been roped in by different gangs that have targeted rhinos in Kaziranga in recent weeks. We are looking at a chain of criminals that begin with the local villager locating a rhino to the end-user across the international border," Ravindra Singh, SP, CBI Wildlife Crime Investigation Wing, told The Indian Express.

Publication Date: 
20/04/2013
Samudra Gupta Kashyap [2]
Indian Express (New Delhi) [3]
Tags:
Assam [4], Kaziranga SA [5], Rhinoceros [6], Poaching [7], Wildlife Crime Bureau [8], Nagaland [9], Manipur [10], Wildlife [11]
Centre for Science and Environment
National Knowledge Commission Government of India

Technology Partners: MimirTech


India Environment Portal by Centre for Science and Environment is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 India License.


Source URL: http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/kaziranga-gangs-%E2%80%98hiring-local-men%E2%80%99-poach-rhinos

Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/kaziranga-gangs-%E2%80%98hiring-local-men%E2%80%99-poach-rhinos
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/samudra-gupta-kashyap
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/indian-express-new-delhi
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/assam
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/kaziranga-sa
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rhinoceros
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/poaching
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/wildlife-crime-bureau
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/nagaland
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/manipur
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/wildlife