 WILD
ENFORCEMENT AND LAW
 The Wild Enforcement and Law Programme is conceptualized as an enforcement and legal skill unit of WTI.
Its main objectives are to curb wildlife crime by anti-poaching and anti-illegal trade activities and litigation, to ensure that national and international policies affecting wildlife and its habitats are in consonance with their survival needs.
The Wild Enforcement and Law Programme intends to;
- Study and document trade in wild flora and fauna through specific trade studies at landscape and taxon levels.
- Maintain wildlife crime control database on selected parameters critical for achieving the overall goal of wildlife crime control.
- Assist enforcement agencies to combat wildlife crime.
- Equip wildlife PA staff to undertake effective anti-poaching operations.
- Recognize and reward good efforts to boost morale of field staff of wildlife Pas.
- Make field staff aware of the issues and conservation techniques in use in various PAs of the country.
- Litigate at courts and other alternative forums in order to address wildlife crime and other wildlife conservation issues.
- Train wildlife and other enforcement personnel in wildlife protection, anti-poaching, wildlife crime control, wildlife law, unarmed combat etc.
- Sensitize the judicial members of the Bar and the Bench on the need to conserve wildlife.
- Sensitize District Councils and other forums as listed under Schedule VI of the Constitution on wildlife conservation laws and policies.
- Lobby at international treaties like CITES, CBD, IWC, WPC, GTF etc. so as to influence international law and policy.
- Form a National Think Tank for wildlife Conservation in India .
- Work towards Green Governance in India .
In order to fulfill these aims and objectives the following five thematic divisions were incorporated in the Wild Enforcement and Lawprogramme.
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These divisions have been formed to mitigate threats of habitat degradation and fragmentation, wildlife crime, unsustainable developmental practices and insufficient information.
These divisions would jointly provide support for litigation, policy advocacy, evicting encroachment, survey and study wildlife issues, control illegal wildlife trade, training forest guards and officials, supply of equipments for anti poaching activities, morale boosting of the forest staff, extend support to judiciary in wildlife litigation, updating wildlife data bank, intelligence gathering, influence legislation and international conventions and consumer awareness campaigns.
If you need more information about this programme,
please write to us at - info@wti.org.in |
