‘Poachers’ from Bihar captured while Wildlife parts were seized

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'Poachers' from Bihar captured while Wildlife parts were seized

Guwahati: Teams of Assam Forest Department and Police conducted a joint operation and seized a large quantity of wildlife paraphernalia of several rare species of wild animals on Tuesday night.

The joint operation was carried out by Guwahati Forest Range under Kamrup East Division along with Kamakhya police post here based on a tip-off.
Wildlife items were recovered from a shop near Kamakhya under Khanmukh beat of Guwahati Forest Range at around 8 pm on Tuesday night.

Two persons, identified as Santosh Kumar Gupta (44) and Sangit Gupta (35), residents of Simri village in Darbhanga district of Bihar, were arrested in connection with the seizure of wildlife parts has gone.
A statement issued here said, “They have been arrested and booked under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, for illegal wildlife trade of scheduled species by Guwahati Forest Range. modified based on a specific information about.”

Seized items include tiger claws, skull bones and jackal teeth, porcupines, monitor lizard genitalia, deer musk, deer antlers, sea cows, sea conch, sea fans and coral.
It may be noted that Khanmukh Beat Officer Jintu Talukdar along with Kamakhya police post in-charge Sub-Inspector Abhilash Talukdar carried out the operation under the supervision of Divisional Forest Officer Rohini Ballave Saikia and Range Officer Pranjal late on Tuesday evening.
“A case (No. G/61 of 2023) has been registered under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 and further investigation of the case is underway,” the statement said.

Notably, the forest and police officials have stepped up surveillance and enforcement mechanisms of late and many bids by wildlife traffickers and poachers for illegal trade in rare wildlife items and animal parts in the state. has failed.
Earlier on January 13, two poachers were caught with rhino horn in Kaliabor in central Assam’s Nagaon district.

A day earlier, three suspected poachers were arrested with parts of wild animals at Pengeri in Upper Assam’s Tinsukia district along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border.

As it is, teams of the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) Guwahati have conducted joint operations with forest and police officials in the Northeast and have busted several bids of poachers and traffickers involved in such illegal trade. has failed.
Additionally, in August last year, WCCB and Biodiversity Conservation Organisation, Aaranyak, jointly organized an LGBT airport for security personnel attached to the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and various airlines here. Conducted a sensitization workshop at the base, highlighting the need to increase vigilance against increasing pollution. Wildlife trafficking.

Increasingly, airports and airlines are being used as international smuggling routes for wildlife products, and in this context, the airports of Northeast India, a hub of biodiversity, are particularly important. are vulnerable to such trafficking.

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