Slender lorises smuggled in India

  Three men were apprehended at India’s New Delhi airport for smuggling slender lorises, a small nocturnal primate. The men were en route from Bangkok to Dubai when a routine pat down revealed a loris stuffed in one man’s underwear. A second loris was found in a nearby trash can. Both primates are now under…

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India’s Prime Minister proposes strengthening wildlife crime fighting

  India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on September 5, 2012 said the government would strengthen the country’s Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 and noted a proposal for expanding the number of regional offices, field units and forensic labs of the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau as well as creation of a national database on wildlife crime and…

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