New Delhi: Owls are commonly found in the illegal wildlife trade in India due to various superstitions and taboos attached to them. Despite the immense ecological role of owls in our ecosystem, these ...

Use of owls in black magic and sorcery driven by superstition, totems and taboos is one of the prime drivers of the covert owl trade, finds a TRAFFIC India investigation into the illegal trade, ...

Panaji: A firemen at Patto, Ribandar, rescued a barn owl that was trapped in the crown of a 35-ft birlamadd (fish tail palm) tree using a ladder on Saturday. The Old Goa fire station received a call ...

Mehmood Ali is a carpenter by day and shaman by night. He says he heals people battling anxiety, sleeplessness, curses and misfortune. The soft-spoken, 50-year-old Ali uses body parts of owls in his ...

New Delhi, India, 2nd November 2018—significant numbers of owls are being illegally trapped and sacrificed each year in India to supply tantric rituals and ceremonies marking annual Diwali ...