ITANAGAR, Mar 20: Two-day capacity building workshop on intelligence collection, investigation and handling of wildlife cases which was jointly organized by the department of Environment & Forest Government of Arunachal Pradesh, Control Bureau, Government of India and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS_India) a Bangalore based NGO concluded on Friday at the State Forest Research Institute, Van Vihar Chimpu.
The field officers of the forest department, representative from district administration and police officers from Papum Pare and Itanagar Capital region took part in the workshop. Inaugurating the workshop, Environment and Forest Minister Mama Natung appreciated the initiative and appealed to the participants to make the most of the opportunity and share ideas to contain wildlife crime in the State. The Minister also asserted that no wildlife crimes will be tolerated and asked the department to take strict action against offenders as per law.
Natung launched a voluntary campaign of airgun surrendering from his native village Lumdung on Wednesday to stop unabated hunting of the wildlife. Resource person, Agni Mitra, the Regional Deputy Director, Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), Eastern Region highlighted the scenario of wildlife crime in India and legal frame works and the role of WCCB and other enforcement agencies during technical session.  Director Mitra also dwelt on method of poaching, trafficking and concealment and trade routes, transit points and collection points etc.  
Anirban Chaudhuri of WCS India in his session highlighted method of identifying species of commonly traded wildlife and their parts. While Samir Majumder an Advocate dwelt on legal provisions related to wildlife crime in wildlife protection act 1972 and other relevant provisions.
The mock court session, market raiding and the vehicle search were conducted as part of the workshop.

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