The main success of WCCB in less than a week since the group's Monday capture of six big cat poachers in Tamil Nadu...
Digital Desk: Following a formal announcement by the Assam Forest Department it has detained one alleged poacher from the Tinsukia area as part of a combined operation with the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) and has confiscated tiger body parts, including the skull, teeth, and bones.
One Royal Bengal tiger skin, four canine fragments, one skull with teeth, and 46 bits of bone were all seized in a joint operation on February 24, according to the statement.
It stated that the operation was carried out using WCCB inputs.
After the three tiger poachers were apprehended in Assam's Orang National Park and Tiger Reserve in June of last year, the event in Tinsukia occurred a few months later.
That is the WCCB's biggest achievement in less than a week since the group's Monday capture of six members of the big cat poaching fraternity in Tamil Nadu.
A statutory organisation called the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) was created by the Indian government's Ministry of Environment, Forests, and Climate Change to tackle organised wildlife crime.
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