A tiger skin seized from a resident of Sawantwadi at Porvorim recently by the police in a well-planned operation may be a fake one and will be sent to the Wildlife Institute of India (WII ...

The tiger skin seized from a north Goa resident in a well-planned move by the police is being sent to wildlife institute ... Fake tiger skin trade exists. Paul Fernandes / TNN / Updated: Jun 30 ...

The fake tiger skin seized in Pakshirajapura had been made out of hides of male calves, Mr. Rajashekar said adding that most fake tiger pelts are made out of hides of dogs, river otter or male calves.

Basudev Tripathi, scientist and officer in charge, ZSI, Pune said, “In recent cases, our verification process highlighted that dog skin was used as tiger or leopard skin in illegal wildlife ...

The Western regional centre of the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) recently received cases in which dog skin is traded as wild animal skin. Within a year the centre has received at least 3-4 ...