New Delhi, Aug 10 (Inditop.com) The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) has been looking into the interstate and international ramifications of two recent incidents of seizure of tiger skin and arrest of certain poachers, a government spokesperson said here Monday.
A few days ago, Sasashtra Seema Bal (SSB) personnel had intercepted a man while attempting to smuggle out two tiger skins and large quantity of bones across the India-Nepal border.
A team from WCCB of the Ministry of Environment and Forests unearthed important interstate and international linkages pertaining to the attempted smuggling, the spokesperson said.
They are working closely with enforcement agencies of at least three States to unearth the dynamics of the illegal trade activity and the kingpins involved in the poaching.
The spokesperson said WCCB is also coordinating with Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Delhi and Himachal Pradesh governments on the linkages of a notorious smuggling kingpin who has been recently nabbed by Rajasthan Forest Department.
It is also working in close coordination with Karnataka police after a tiger skin was seized recently near Bandipur. In its efforts to pursue the links and the poachers, WCCB is pooling in professional forensic and other technical capacity available with various agencies to ensure effective prosecution, the spokesperson added.
