Seminar on prevention of wildlife crime held at Frontier HQ BSF Patgaon, Guwahati

GUWAHATI: A seminar on “Conservation of Wildlife and Prevention of Wildlife Crime” was conducted at Frontier HQ BSF Patgaon, Guwahati in association with official of Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), Guwahati on Tuesday to sensitize the Border Security Forces personnel about the magnitude and impact of wildlife poaching and illegal wildlife trade and to highlight the inevitable need for inter-agency co-operation for eradicating this threat to wildlife, stated a press release.

Inspector General of BSF Guwahati Frontier Sh Piyush Mordia delivered the inaugural address and conveyed the importance of the seminar on Conservation of Wildlife & Prevention of Wildlife Crime.

He also said that illegal wildlife trade is reported to be the third largest global illegal trade after narcotics and human trafficking. It is a lucrative business for criminal syndicates because the risk involved is low compared to other crimes and high profits can be generated. It hinders social and economic development, including potential economic loss for governments, and has direct consequences on rule of law, national and international security and the environment. During the seminar, Sh Piyush Mordia, Inspector General of BSF Guwahati Frontier made an appeal to the BSF personnel to put forward strong and candid view about how agencies can coordinate and formulate a long term strategy for protection of forest and wild animals.

He also empathized that prevention of wildlife crime is very important. Some anti-national elements are trying to smuggle wild animals on Indo-Bangladesh border however, due to alertness of BSF troops they could not succeed to smuggle such trans-border crimes. He emphasised that it is necessary to prevent wildlife crime.

KK Sarma, Assistant Director, Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), Guwahati delivered the lecture on Conservation of Wildlife & Prevention of Wildlife Crime. During the discussions Sh J K Rudola, DIG Frontier HQ BSF Patgaon, Guwahati spoke about the need to upgrade technology of current systems to detect wildlife crime in a more effective manner. He also spoke about the need to strengthen the wildlife forensic capacity of the country and suggested mobile forensic labs for identifying wildlife contrabands in transit.

At the end, the seminar was concluded by Sh D K Tripathi, DIG (PSO) Frontier HQ BSF Guwahati and congratulated the officials of Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), Guwahati for successfully conducting the seminar. The seminar was attended by 55 officials of BSF Frontier Guwahati.

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