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ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE RUNNING ON SNAPDEAL, QUIKR, OLX, EBAY AND AMAZON SAYS GOVERNMENT

 

The Government today said that, the trade of rare animals and their body parts is prevalent through famous websites such as Quikr, OLX, Amazon and Youtube!

The Environment Minister, Mr. Anil Madhan Dave stated that the online smuggling of these rare animals and their parts are being monitored by the state and cental government as part of cyber crime. He also furnished a list of 106 such websites which were collected by the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau. Mr. Anil also stated at the Rajya Sabha “Several websites are seen advertising sale of rare animals and their parts”. 

 

Several steps are being taken to avoid such illegal practices which include utilizing services of cyber crime to carry out time to time cyber patrolling to detect offers on such websites. If any such offer is found, details are acquired of the suspect and information is passed on to the concerned authority to take necessary legal action. 

 

A meeting of representatives from online websites was held to discuss issues based on online wildlife trade, to sensitize them and discuss ways in which the representatives could assist the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau in case of such findings.  Training and sensitization programs are being conducted so that the issue of illegal online wildlife trade is highlighted and the officials that are involved in such enforcements are well aware of it. 

 

-  Leandra Newcastle, 1 BBA ‘B’