Mohali: In a bid to prevent animal skin smuggling and illegal wildlife trade, the Punjab Forest Department has decided to write to Chandigarh airport officials for better coordination among security agencies and spread general awareness about securing exit points.
Kuldeep Kumar, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests-cum-Chief Wildlife Warden, Punjab, said: “Though no incident of illegal wildlife trade through air transit routes has been reported at the Chandigarh Airport, we intend to write to the authorities so that CISF personnel stationed at the airport could work in coordination with local divisional forest officers (DFOs) in case of a trafficking incident.”
Speaking at a regional inter-agency coordination meeting, he said it was important for all stakeholders to share intelligence and build capacity to prevent wildlife crimes and control illegal wildlife trade.
The meeting was organised by Punjab Forest Department in coordination with the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) and attended by officers of the Forest Departments and Police Departments of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Delhi and Chandigarh and representatives of Central paramilitary/border guarding forces, including CISF, SSB, ITBP, BSF, RPF and CBI, customs and state forensic laboratories.
The officials discussed various sensitive routes along the Indo-China and Indo-Pakistan border to prevent poaching, illegal trade and smuggling of tiger bones, leopard skin, elephant tusk (ivory), bear bile, turtles, musk pod, sand boa, rhino horn.
06/02/18 Pavneet Singh Chadha/Tribune
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Kuldeep Kumar, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests-cum-Chief Wildlife Warden, Punjab, said: “Though no incident of illegal wildlife trade through air transit routes has been reported at the Chandigarh Airport, we intend to write to the authorities so that CISF personnel stationed at the airport could work in coordination with local divisional forest officers (DFOs) in case of a trafficking incident.”
Speaking at a regional inter-agency coordination meeting, he said it was important for all stakeholders to share intelligence and build capacity to prevent wildlife crimes and control illegal wildlife trade.
The meeting was organised by Punjab Forest Department in coordination with the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) and attended by officers of the Forest Departments and Police Departments of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Delhi and Chandigarh and representatives of Central paramilitary/border guarding forces, including CISF, SSB, ITBP, BSF, RPF and CBI, customs and state forensic laboratories.
The officials discussed various sensitive routes along the Indo-China and Indo-Pakistan border to prevent poaching, illegal trade and smuggling of tiger bones, leopard skin, elephant tusk (ivory), bear bile, turtles, musk pod, sand boa, rhino horn.
06/02/18 Pavneet Singh Chadha/Tribune
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