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These folks come from varied backgrounds; there are teachers, businesspeople, students and tea planters, but are bound by the love for native and rare orchids.

Spread over 600 hectares, the Marayoor range is one of the most the vulnerable forests in the state where the illegal tree felling by lumberjacks and loggers continues on a rampant scale, and the job of these vigilant officers is nothing less of a risky gamble.

One of the reasons smugglers pick Bengaluru as a hub to transport wildlife products is because of the absence of a wildlife cell that is supposed to swing into action when required.

The property cell of Mumbai crime branch arrested four people who were trying to sell a 100-year-old elephant tooth worth Rs. 2 crore on Wednesday.