{"id":78543,"date":"2021-01-27T17:37:32","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T12:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=78543"},"modified":"2021-03-01T13:19:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T07:49:44","slug":"wildlife-crime-control-bureauwccb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wildlife-crime-control-bureauwccb\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife Crime Control Bureau(WCCB)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wildlife Crime Control Bureau(WCCB) and Barasat Forest Range have rescued a live pangolin in Kolkata.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a statutory multi-disciplinary body.\u00a0 It functions under the Ministry of Environment and Forests. Its responsibilities include combating organized wildlife crime in the country.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Headquarters: <\/strong>New Delhi<\/li>\n<li><strong>Functions: <\/strong>Under Section 38 (Z) of the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972, it is mandated to:\n<ul>\n<li>Collect intelligence related to organized wildlife crime activities. And to circulate it to the States and other enforcement agencies for immediate actions, to catch the criminals.<\/li>\n<li>Establish a centralized wildlife crime data bank.<\/li>\n<li>Coordinates with foreign authorities and international organization to facilitate universal action on wildlife crimes.<\/li>\n<li>Build capacity of the wildlife crime enforcement agencies for scientific and professional investigation into wildlife crimes.<\/li>\n<li>Assist State Governments to ensure success in prosecutions related to wildlife crimes.<\/li>\n<li>Advise the Government of India on issues relating to wildlife crimes having national and international ramifications, relevant policy, and laws.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It also assists and advises the Customs authorities in inspection of the consignments of flora &amp; fauna as per the provisions of Wild Life Protection Act, CITES, and EXIM Policy governing such an item.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b>: <a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/MShareArticle?OrgId=GG68792T9.1&amp;imageview=0\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why in News? Wildlife Crime Control Bureau(WCCB) and Barasat Forest Range have rescued a live pangolin in Kolkata. Facts: \u00a0Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) It is a statutory multi-disciplinary body.\u00a0 It functions under the Ministry of Environment and Forests. Its responsibilities include combating organized wildlife crime in the country. Headquarters: New Delhi Functions: Under Section&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wildlife-crime-control-bureauwccb\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wildlife Crime Control Bureau(WCCB)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":78631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[1448],"class_list":["post-78543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-env_5","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Wildlife-Crime-Control-Bureau.jpg?fit=650%2C350&ssl=1","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700433124},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}