{"id":84397,"date":"2021-02-22T16:52:35","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T11:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=84397"},"modified":"2021-03-01T13:18:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T07:48:23","slug":"wccb-receives-asia-environmental-enforcement-award-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wccb-receives-asia-environmental-enforcement-award-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"WCCB receives &#8220;Asia Environmental Enforcement Award-2020&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) has received the Asia Environmental Enforcement Award-2020.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Asia Environmental Enforcement Award:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is given by the United Nations Environment Programme(UNEP) in partnership with UNDP, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), CITES, INTERPOL, and World Customs Organisation(WCO).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Purpose: <\/strong>The award publicly recognises excellence in controlling transboundary environmental crime. Government officials and institutions or teams can be awarded for the enforcement.<\/li>\n<li>The award covers any transboundary environmental crime such as illegal trade in wildlife and illegal trade in chemical or waste including plastic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Why was WCCB awarded?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WCCB was awarded under the category &#8216;Innovation&#8217;. It was awarded for \u201cOperation WILDNET-II\u201d or\u00a0 \u2018Innovation\u2019 for planning and conducting a multispecies enforcement operation.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Operation WILDNET<\/strong>: The purpose of the Operation was to control the ever-growing illegal wildlife trade on the Internet, through social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance:<\/strong> This is the second time WCCB is receiving this award. Earlier, it received this award in 2018.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wildlife-crime-control-bureauwccb\/\"><strong>Click Here to Read about WCCB<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/newsonair.com\/News?title=WCCB-receives-Asia-Environmental-Enforcement-Award-2020&amp;id=410097\"><strong>AIR<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u00a0Read also:-<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/polity\/fundamental-rights\/provisions-enshrined-in-important-articles-of-the-fundamental-rights\/article-32\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) has received the Asia Environmental Enforcement Award-2020. About Asia Environmental Enforcement Award: It is given by the United Nations Environment Programme(UNEP) in partnership with UNDP, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), CITES, INTERPOL, and World Customs Organisation(WCO). Purpose: The award publicly recognises excellence in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wccb-receives-asia-environmental-enforcement-award-2020\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WCCB receives &#8220;Asia Environmental Enforcement Award-2020&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1351,1310,4182,9],"tags":[1448],"class_list":["post-84397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-daily-news","category-daily-news-updates","category-environment","category-public","tag-env_5","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704783430},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84397","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=84397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}