Claws and teeth are used to make amulets ... One person told researchers the fishing boats were ideal to send larger items like tiger skins. “Nobody checks,” the interviewee was quoted ...

Investigations by the state's Tiger Strike Force and the Anti-Terrorism Squad revealed that the gang was deceiving buyers by passing off plastic claws and wax-coated fake nails as tiger claws.

A team of forest officials from the Hunsur Wildlife Division took two persons, including a woman, into custody and seized 12 tiger claws near Ponnampet in Kodagu district on Monday. Acting on a ...