Mon, March 12 (MExN): A one-day training on ‘combating wildlife crime and biodiversity conservation’ for Forest and Police Personnel was conducted at Town Council, Mon on March 11. The training is jointly organised by the Nagaland Forest Department, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)- India and Nagaland State Biodiversity Board (NSBB).
A press release stated that the welcome address was given by Rajesh Kumar, IFS, DFO Mon. He gave a brief background of Wildlife Protection Act 1972 and its extension to State of Nagaland in 1981. He highlighted the need to have a close co-ordination with forest and Police officers, but also necessary supports from community at large for implementation of provision of this act.
Satya Prakash Tripathi, retired PCCF & HoFF, Nagaland and Chairman, State Biodiversity Board, Nagaland, in his speech gave historical back ground of the training. He emphasised need for creating awareness among stakeholders for conservation of natural resources along with combating wildlife crimes.
Dev Prakash Bankhwal, retired PCCF (Wildlife) and Chief Wildlife Warden, Assam, and the Team Leader WCS stress on the need to have greater attention on implementation of this act and gave some examples of many success stories in this field in other part of country due to support of technological development .He called all the officers to make extra efforts irrespective of logistics problems faced by State.
Imnalensa, IPS, SP Mon special invitee for this training while thanking WCS, India for sensitising on Wildlife Conservation through such training , also talked in details about few success stories in last few years notably in Amur Falcon Conservation and its safe passage within State. While talking about implementation about the provision of WLPA 1972, he also stressed the need to have a simultaneous focus on livelihood creation in the village due to uniqueness of the State, where most of forest lands are privately and community owned.
