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Kathmandu becoming international hub for wildlife smugglers |
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It is quite disheartening to see such news on our daily papers. Kathmandu Valley is becoming an international hub for forest product smugglers if we look at the number and nature of recent cases. It was revealed that various organs of the wildlife of Nepal are being smuggled to China. In addition, it was also reported that smugglers manage to smuggle the body parts of animals to Malaysia, Japan, Europe and America form Nepal. While Nepal and India are the party states to the CITES International Convention, an international agreement signed by the governments aiming to ensure the international trade in specimens of wild animals does not threaten their survivor, China has not signed the convention yet. According to the District Forest Office, Kathmandu, around 40 cases of wildlife parts smuggling and 14 of forest product smuggling were registered in the fiscal year 2014/15. The Office took action against 89 people for the same. The seized wildlife parts include hides of red panda, leopard, deer and the endangered species of birds, and horns of rhino, among others, according to District Forest Officer Indra Prasad Sapkota. The smugglers who are arrested are often found to be saying that it was their first time and they were ignorant of trading those seized animal?s parts was illegal, added Sapkota. According to Indra Bahadur Rana, Police Inspector at the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police, the latest cases of arrest of the smugglers show that Kathmandu Valley is becoming a hub for smuggling of wildlife parts. If criminals are to be believed, our awareness campaign which are often limited to only cities and sub urban are seems to be becoming less effective and factual. So whole focal point should be the rural youths ( both male and female, since most of our awareness program are focused on female only, often we fail to aware male on such issues). WE need to launch the awareness campaign rampantly stressing on Biological diversity conservation, endangered species and legals issues. Army personnel who are patrolling our wildlife , local youth clubs, forest department, I/NGOs and all other government officials as well should come at one point in order to stop such horrendouscrime. In this scenario, medias have the greatest role. Raido/TV program and effective advertisement on conservation of wildlife could prevent smuggling from happening at great extent. Prevention is better than cure. Innthis case, only prevention is the option. Regards Rahul Acharya #wildlifeconservation #nopoaching Source: |
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Arushi, you just summersided everything that i wanted to say
Thanks for going through report deeply.
Posted 24-08-2015 15:43
Absolutely Right Rohan :) Prevention is better than cure
Posted 24-08-2015 15:42
committed government is equally important to control this menace. Thanks Raunak for the comment.
Posted 24-08-2015 15:39
Strict monitoring and supervision are most. like you have pointed Bindu di. Thanks for going through the report.
Posted 24-08-2015 15:38
Harmanjot, Wildlife is crucial to us but our neglegance and reluctance habit to teach rural seem to cause seriou threat to them. Strict punishment needs to given to such culprit.
Posted 24-08-2015 15:36
We got to hear many such sad stories in news. We all need to run a campaign against this.
Posted 18-08-2015 10:12
That is tragic!!! We need to change this situation for a better way!!! Lets work for that! =)
Posted 18-08-2015 03:14
It's really heartbreaking to know that our Capital city is being one of the hub for the smugglers.Hope concerned authorities will implement strict regulations against such activities and yeah you are right prvention is only the option in this case.
Posted 17-08-2015 10:49
It is indeed sad and a matter of serious concern that Kathmandu is becoming one of the hub for wildlife smugglers. Awareness level has to increase to have wider outreach till rural youths and other vulnerable. Govt should increase the vigilance and should come up with strict laws defining severe penalties and punishments for people involved. Boards and banners promoting biodiversity conservation and prohibition of wild life smuggling-should be put at sensitive areas like sea ports , airports , state borders .... Thanks for sharing, Rahul.
Posted 16-08-2015 03:21
Correct Rahul, Prevention rather surgical operation is required to kill this menace. A very heavy & committed law & order is required to tackle this issue.
Well written!
Posted 16-08-2015 02:19
This cause for worry Rahul. You have rightly pointed out a burning issue.
We all hope thegovt. authorities check this menace ASAP.
Posted 16-08-2015 01:50
Yeah Rahul brother it is really disheartening to see Kathmandu is being one of the hub for wildlife smugglers. I had read the report, Kathmandu is one of the most widely used transit place for smuggling among other countries. Strict monitoring and supervision are extremely needed to avoid such cases.
Thank you for sharing dear Rahul!
Posted 16-08-2015 00:45
Wildlife is a very important component of our environment.It maintains a balance in food chains.But such activities are not only disturbing the balance,but endangering the species and pushing them into extinction.Such things need to be severely punished to prevent any further of smuggling of body parts of animals.
Posted 15-08-2015 23:59
Conservation activities are increasing that veryis it I've but such smuggling ruins all our effort. Strict laws needs to be made and implemented especially for these smugglers
Posted 15-08-2015 17:53
Same is happening here in India. Especially with rhinos in kaziranga.
Posted 15-08-2015 17:00