{"id":22902,"date":"2024-03-03T04:49:23","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T04:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/03\/351-indian-tent-turtles-rescued-as-dri-foils-trafficking-attempt-in-odishas-cuttack-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2024-03-03T04:49:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T04:49:26","slug":"351-indian-tent-turtles-rescued-as-dri-foils-trafficking-attempt-in-odishas-cuttack-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/03\/351-indian-tent-turtles-rescued-as-dri-foils-trafficking-attempt-in-odishas-cuttack-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"351 Indian Tent Turtles rescued as DRI foils trafficking attempt in Odisha\u2019s Cuttack &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-519054\">&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-header post-tp-1-header\">\n<div class=\"single-featured\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content clearfix single-post-content\">\n<p>Bhubaneswar: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) on Saturday rescued as many as 351 Indian Tent Turtles near Manguli Toll Plaza in Odisha\u2019s Cuttack district as the agency foiled a wildlife trafficking bid.<\/p>\n<p>Acting on specific intelligence, officers of the DRI carried out surveillance near the toll plaza. They identified a \u2018Tata Tiago\u2019 vehicle with three passengers, travelling from West Bengal.<\/p>\n<p>On questioning the occupants of the vehicle, it came to fore that they were carrying 351 Indian Tent Turtles from West Bengal to Karnataka.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian Tent Turtle is listed in Schedule\u2013I of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 and is thereby provided the highest degree of protection.<\/p>\n<p>The turtles were immediately handed over to the Odisha State Forest officials.<\/p>\n<p>The three persons along with their vehicle were detained and handed over for further investigation under the provisions of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n    var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n    if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n    js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n    js.src = \"\n    fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n  }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] &#13; &#13; &#13; Bhubaneswar: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) on Saturday rescued as many as 351 Indian Tent Turtles near Manguli Toll Plaza in Odisha\u2019s Cuttack district as the agency foiled a wildlife trafficking bid. Acting on specific intelligence, officers of the DRI carried out surveillance near the toll plaza. They identified a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-states"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22904,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22902\/revisions\/22904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}