GUWAHATI: Sleuths from the state's wooded area department and Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) arrested three individuals, including a wanted poacher, with tiger bones and skin in Biswanath district on Friday.
The trio have been known as Shairam Narzary (poacher), Ramprasad Basumatary and Rupnath Narzary, a college teacher. The complete skin of a tiger, its skull, bones, enamel, nails and different portions had been seized from their possession.
"Shairam gunned down the tiger almost two months ago somewhere in the jungles of Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border. The skin has not even dried up yet. He had killed the animal and was trying to sell it to agents in Nagaland and Manipur from where it would have crossed the international border to Myanmar and finally reach China and then other parts of the world. The other two were helping him in selling it," a WCCB source said.
Sources said Shairam was once in touch with no less than 4 to 5 consumers of the outside and bones. Then he had mounted to sell the animal portions for some Rs 18 lakh. All of them had been stuck at the Biswantah-Pabhoi street.
"Animal parts are in high demand across Southeast Asia, particularly in China, where they are used to make traditional medicines. Racketeers from both Nagaland and Manipur have been working as couriers and joined hands with their counterparts in Assam for animal parts. Besides tiger, body parts of leopards, bears, and pangolins are also in high demand," a source said. There may be alleged involvement of wooded area department personnel and officers from neighbouring states in numerous cases.
Experts have described tigers as 'walking gold' value a fortune within the black market. Tiger bones are smuggled nearly solely to China the place they are used to make tiger bone wine - a pricey conventional Chinese medication tonic concept to impart the tiger's nice power and vigour. Tiger skins are primarily used for high-end luxurious decor within the Communist country.
This is the second one seizure of body portions of a large cat within a month. In October, WCCB sleuths had seized the outside of an endangered clouded leopard. In August, too, two leopard skins and around three kg of leopard bones had been seized within the city's Gorchuk house.
The trio have been known as Shairam Narzary (poacher), Ramprasad Basumatary and Rupnath Narzary, a college teacher. The complete skin of a tiger, its skull, bones, enamel, nails and different portions had been seized from their possession.
"Shairam gunned down the tiger almost two months ago somewhere in the jungles of Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border. The skin has not even dried up yet. He had killed the animal and was trying to sell it to agents in Nagaland and Manipur from where it would have crossed the international border to Myanmar and finally reach China and then other parts of the world. The other two were helping him in selling it," a WCCB source said.
Sources said Shairam was once in touch with no less than 4 to 5 consumers of the outside and bones. Then he had mounted to sell the animal portions for some Rs 18 lakh. All of them had been stuck at the Biswantah-Pabhoi street.
"Animal parts are in high demand across Southeast Asia, particularly in China, where they are used to make traditional medicines. Racketeers from both Nagaland and Manipur have been working as couriers and joined hands with their counterparts in Assam for animal parts. Besides tiger, body parts of leopards, bears, and pangolins are also in high demand," a source said. There may be alleged involvement of wooded area department personnel and officers from neighbouring states in numerous cases.
Experts have described tigers as 'walking gold' value a fortune within the black market. Tiger bones are smuggled nearly solely to China the place they are used to make tiger bone wine - a pricey conventional Chinese medication tonic concept to impart the tiger's nice power and vigour. Tiger skins are primarily used for high-end luxurious decor within the Communist country.
This is the second one seizure of body portions of a large cat within a month. In October, WCCB sleuths had seized the outside of an endangered clouded leopard. In August, too, two leopard skins and around three kg of leopard bones had been seized within the city's Gorchuk house.
Assam: 3 held with tiger bones, skin in Biswanath
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