Addressing a workshop Deputy Inspector General of the SSB, Jagdeep Pal Singh known as for coordinated efforts by the SSB and the Royal Bhutan Police to mount a vigil towards wildlife crime and unlawful commerce throughout the worldwide border. Over 70 males in uniform and officers from the Bhutan authorities participated in two latest back-to-back sensitisation workshops on “Preventing Wildlife Crime and Illegal Wildlife Trade” organised by the SSB at two Border Outposts. These workshops had been supported by biodiversity conservation organisation “Aaranyak” with the target to create synergy with the Bhutanese authorities to verify such crimes.

The SSB’s sixty fourth Battalion Commandant N Okay Tamta appreciated Aaranyak’s cooperation and underlined the “Sustained efforts to sensitise the important role that the border guarding personnel can play in preventing wildlife crime and illegal trade in the greater interest of conservation of the precious flora and fauna in the biodiversity-rich Eastern Himalayas.”

Battalion Commandant Lokesh Kumar Singh stated “It is important to understand that when we enter the forest, we have entered the home of these wild animals. We have to be respectful to them and make sure they are safe. If we do not save wildlife and the environment, our future generations will have nothing to call a home.”

The officers from the Bhutan authorities attending each the workshops appreciated the shows of Aaranyak useful resource individuals as an eye-opener to the burgeoning wildlife crime and unlawful commerce that has volume-wise turn into the fourth largest unlawful international commerce after medication, human trafficking and arms.

The Aaranyak group whereas making their shows stated that wildlife crime and unlawful commerce shouldn’t be solely posing a grave menace to international biodiversity but additionally to the safety of the nations as it’s in some circumstances discovered linked to terrorism, medication and arms smuggling.

Resource individual Dr Jimmy Borah flagged the modus operandi of the worldwide community of wildlife (each wildlife) criminals and merchants and the way China and Vietnam stand out as the first locations of the unlawful wildlife commerce. (IANS)