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On the poachers' trail

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Submitted by ipsita on Thu, 1992-12-31 00:00

1992
* 81 skins, including 3 tiger skins, were seized in Delhi in one of the biggest hauls of the decade.
* Trader caught in Delhi with 2 tiger skins and leopard skins, totally worth Rs 3 lakh.
* Three poachers caught in Ranthambore with a tiger skin, a leopard skin and 4 kg of tiger bones.
* Bombay jeweller tries to find a market for 300 pairs of tiger claws.

1991,/subhead>
* One leopard skin deposited by informer with deputy director of wildlife preservation department.
* 1 tiger skin and 4 leopard skins found in Siliguri in North Bengal.
* Leopard skins seized at Hardwar.
* 5 tiger skins seized at the Indira Gandhi airport in New Delhi.
1990
* Poaching gang caught in Sariska confesses to killing 18 tigers and leopards.
* 8 tiger skins, 1 disarticulate tiger skeleton seized in Calcutta.

1987
* 15 tiger deaths reported from Dudwa National

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Down To Earth
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Publication Date: 
30/12/1992