The Madhya Pradesh Forest Department’s specialized wildlife crime control unit arrested two suspected poachers on Sunday, dismantling an inter-district wildlife smuggling network operating across protected tiger reserve buffer zones.
The coordinated enforcement action followed weeks of covert electronic surveillance and informers’ tips tracking illicit animal organ trade across Seoni and Chhindwara districts. Forest ranger strike forces intercepted the suspects during a dawn raid near the fringes of the Pench corridor, seizing steel jaw leg-traps, high-voltage electrocution cables, unlicensed muzzle-loading firearms, and dried animal hides.
Chief Conservator of Forests Amit Dubey confirmed that the arrested individuals confessed to laying high-tension wire snares along seasonal forest watering holes to trap wild ungulates, leopards, and other protected wildlife. Investigators discovered that the poachers were linked to an organized regional trading syndicate supplying wild body parts to international smuggling conduits in bordering states.
Forensic veterinary pathologists collected tissue samples from the recovered hides for DNA testing at the Wildlife Institute of India to verify species identities and origin habitats. The accused were booked under stringent, non-bailable provisions of the Wildlife (Protection) Act and remanded to forest custody by a regional judicial magistrate.
Forest department leadership announced intensified round-the-clock foot patrols and canine tracking squad deployments across vulnerable wildlife crossing corridors. Village eco-development committees in adjoining forest fringes were urged to report suspicious nocturnal movements and unpermitted electrical wire tapping along agricultural perimeter fences.
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