Legislation enforcement officers from India, Bhutan, and Nepal are collaborating in a nine-day workshop geared toward coaching them in combating wildlife trafficking in South Asia.
The primary Coaching of Trainers (ToT) workshop that’s a part of this venture, commenced on November 21 in Dehradun, Uttarakhand and can conclude on November 29 in New Delhi, officers stated.
Organized by TRAFFIC India and WWF-India, in collaboration with the South Asia Wildlife Enforcement Community (SAWEN) and the Wildlife Crime Management Bureau (WCCB) of the Authorities of India, the workshop goals to strengthen and improve the capability of legislation enforcement businesses in Bhutan, India, and Nepal.
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The main focus is on bolstering contributors’ data and expertise to successfully fight wildlife trafficking within the area, as said in a joint assertion by the organizers.
The occasion is being attended by 34 officers, ten every from Bhutan, India and Nepal, and two every from Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The officers are from varied legislation enforcement businesses of their nation, together with forest and customs departments, police and para-military forces, the assertion stated. Jag Mohan Sharma, IFS, Director, Indira Gandhi Nationwide Forest Academy, and Virendra Tiwari, IFS, Director, Wildlife Institute of India inaugurated the workshop.
This nine-day coaching workshop can be carried out by useful resource individuals from WCCB, Nationwide Crime Bureau, Centre for Cell and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Forest Analysis Institute (FRI), and Wildlife Institute of India (WII), amongst different topic specialists from India. “This regional workshop has been carefully designed considering the evolving scenario of illegal wildlife trade. The training focuses on increasing interdiction of the illegal wildlife trade, building investigative and enforcement capabilities to handle transboundary issues, and enhancing cross-border coordination,” HV Girisha, IFS, Further Director, WCCB stated.
“As a specialist organisation engaged on curbing wildlife crime in India, WCCB will lead the execution of this regional workshop, Girisha added. Varied classes deliberate throughout the coaching embrace an summary of wildlife crime and unlawful wildlife commerce in South Asia, the Conference on Worldwide Commerce in Endangered Species (CITES) and its implementation, coordination for tackling wildlife crime in Asia, learnings from the successes of conservation, position of rangers and investigators, cybercrime and cyber forensics, the assertion stated.
The attendees of the workshop are additionally being skilled to know how human-wildlife battle fuels wildlife crime and unlawful commerce and the way to conduct wildlife forensics and seizure of reside animals, amongst different subjects, it added. Varied different initiatives underneath this regional venture embrace conducting capability constructing for trainers, nationwide capability constructing for legislation enforcement, introduction to new instruments and applied sciences, and help for more practical prosecution and judiciary work, the discharge stated.
The venture will help officers in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka and can assist strengthen SAWEN as the first regional organisation combating wildlife trafficking, it added.
With inputs from PTI.