United
Nation Environment has awarded Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), Ministry
of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India with Asia
Environment Enforcement Awards, 2018 for excellent work done by the Bureau in
combating transboundary environmental crime.
The
Asia Environment Enforcement Awards publicly recognize and celebrate excellence
in enforcement by government officials and institutions/teams combating
transboundary environmental crime in Asia. The awards are given to outstanding
individuals and/or government organizations/teams that demonstrate excellence
and leadership in enforcement of national laws to combat transboundary
environmental crime in one of the following eligibility criteria areas:
collaboration; impact; innovation; integrity and gender leadership.
WCCB
has been conferred this award in Innovation category. WCCB has adopted
innovative enforcement techniques that have dramatically increased enforcement
of transboundary environmental crimes in India. Notably it has developed an
online Wildlife Crime Database Management System to get real time data in order
to help analyze trends in crime and devise effective measures to prevent and
detect wildlife crimes across India.
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