WCCB Wins Asia Environmental Enforcement Award 2020

Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB)

• It is a statutory body constituted under the WildLife (Protection) Act, 1972.
• Ministry: Ministry of Environment and Forests.
• Mandate: To combat organized wildlife crime in the country.
• Headquarter: New Delhi
• Regional offices: Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai and Jabalpur
• WCCB has developed an online Wildlife Crime Database Management System to get real time data to analyse trends in wildlife crimes across India.
• This system has been successfully used for carrying out operations such as Operation Save Kurma, Thunderbird, Wildnet, Lesknow, Birbil, Thunderstorm, Lesknow-II etc resulting in huge seizures of Tiger/Leopard Skin/bones, Rhino Horn, Elephant Ivory etc.
• WCCB got the award twice in three years.
• It has been awarded this year under the Innovation category.
• Awarded by: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

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