{"id":227713,"date":"2023-11-04T00:04:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T18:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=227713"},"modified":"2023-11-04T00:04:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T18:34:01","slug":"forest-dept-wccb-seize-illegally-traded-wildlife-body-parts-in-assams-dhubri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/11\/04\/forest-dept-wccb-seize-illegally-traded-wildlife-body-parts-in-assams-dhubri\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest dept, WCCB seize illegally traded wildlife body parts in Assam&#8217;s Dhubri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhubri, Nov 3 (PTI) The Assam Forest department and Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) in a joint operation have seized illegally traded wildlife body parts in Dhubri district, an official said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Acting on a tip-off, a team of the WCCB and forest department raided a makeshift roadside shop here and seized wildlife body parts of various animals on Thursday, WCCB member Mehtab Uddin Ahmed told PTI.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Altogether 43 pangolin scales were among the items seized, along with four-inch pieces of leopard skin, monitor lizard skin, rhesus macaque skin, 25 sticks of peacock feathers, 17 sticks of eagle feathers, a bundle of sea fan, a barking deer forehead bearing a single horn and a segment of deerskin, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The shop owner, however, managed to escape.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Most of these components fall under Schedule-I species as per the Wildlife (Protection) Act 1972, including the sea fan, and they are illegally traded for use in traditional medicines.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A case has been filed and the forest department is investigating the matter, an official said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dhubri, Nov 3 (PTI) The Assam Forest department and Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) in a joint operation have seized illegally traded wildlife body parts in Dhubri district, an official said on Friday. Acting on a tip-off, a team of the WCCB and forest department raided a makeshift roadside shop here and seized wildlife body [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-227713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}