Wildlife workshop for forest & police officials held at Dmu

Two-day training workshop for forest and police officers jointly organised by the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau, Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Government of India, New Delhi and department of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Nagaland commenced Tuesday at Dimapur.
According to press release by wildlife warden, Kiphire Kamdi Hemant Bhaskar, (IFS), gracing the occasion as chief guest, parliamentary secretary for commerce and industries, T. Amenba Yaden expressed surprise that Nagaland was no more the state of “petty hunting by simple village folks but global transit hub of illegal wildlife products transported through Dimapur-Manipur-Myanmar”.
 He lamented that headhunting was brought to halt with the advent of Christianity but unfortunately wildlife hunting continued. Yaden also emphasised on creating awareness for wildlife conservation and co-ordination among different enforcement agencies, both at state as well as central level to control wildlife crimes.
Chief wildlife warden, Nagaland and chairman of the programme, Satya Prakash Tripathi, welcomed the participants. He highlighted the sincere efforts of the forest department in motivating people of the state and inculcating the idea of wildlife conservation in the minds of people.
Joint director, WCCB, MoEF & CC, government of India, New Delhi, Kamal Dutta gave a brief back ground of the WCCB and appreciated peoples participation in success story of Amur Falcon which has brought laurel to the state, nationally and internationally.
He also stated that the union forest minister, Prakash Javadekar was very happy in seeing people’s participation in wildlife conservation and Amur Falcon conservation in particular during his visit to Nagaland on December 15 to 16, 2015. 
Dutta said that union minister Javadekar was so impressed that he shared the Amur Falcon conservation story from Nagaland with other colleagues in the ministry and department. Dutta suggested that “we” need to bring many more laurels to the state and appealed all concerned for synergic action to combat wildlife crime.
Deputy Commissioner Dimapur, Kesonyu Yhome appreciated the efforts taken by forest department and stated that awareness alone was not sufficient but socioeconomic development and effective enforcement needs to be in place for wildlife conservation. He promised all the support from district administration to curb wildlife crimes. Vote of thanks was proposed by wildlife warden Kiphire, Kamdi Hemant Bhasker.