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Illegal wildlife trade runs away from city.

By Saurabh Sinha.

 

11/19/2002

The Times of India

© 2002 Times of India Group. All rights reserved.

 

NEW DELHI: With the Delhi state government and law enforcing agencies

cracking

down on illegal trade of wildlife products, poachers and tra-ders are

shifting

shop outside the city. Delhi is now being used to strike deals, while the

products - including animal skins, ivory and shahtoosh shawls - are being

delivered mostly outside, say wildlife officials.

 

" Deals are still struck here. But a majority of the products may be

delivered

near wildlife sanctuaries, international borders or hill areas, " said

assistant commissioner of police (special cell) L N Rao.

Last year, the state wildlife department posted a senior official to

coordinate fulltime with agencies concerned and neighbouring state

governments

to clamp down on the illegal trade. " We registered a record 31 cases last

year. Five tiger skins, 23 leopard skins, 89 shahtoosh shawls, 32.6 kg ivory

and 2,555 protected birds were seized, " said wildlife officer Bipin Behari.

 

Ashok Kumar of Wildlife Trust of India claims stepped-up cooperation between

the wildlife department, the police and Central Bureau of Investigation has

made poachers wary. " While illegal killing has not stopped, the trade is

shifting out of the city, " Kumar said.

 

Behari said just nine cases of animal skin and bird seizures have been

registered in the city so far this year. " But several such seizures have

been

reported outside Delhi in places like Haldwani, " said Delhi's chief wildlife

warden S S Garbyal.

 

" Last week, we received information that a large consignment of shahtoosh

shawls would be coming to Delhi from Kashmir, " said Behari. " When we

conducted

a raid, we found just 11 shawls. The rest had been distributed before

entering

the city. Earlier, the entire lot would have reached Delhi for a better

price, " he said. Rao said coordinating with the special cell had helped curb

the trade, since it had better sources of information. " Also, the local

police

is overworked, " he said.

 

The chief wildlife warden said the department had asked the Centre to set up

a

joint team of wildlife wardens of different states to clamp down effectively

on the trade.

 

 

 

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