12 Dec 2019



BHUBANESWAR: A team of Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), which is functioning under Union ministry of environment, forests and climate change, reached Athgarh in Cuttack district on Thursday to investigate smuggling of pangolins from Odisha and find out whether the cases have international link.

“The team including an intelligence officer has come from WCCB regional office Jabalpur. They will interrogate the persons arrested in connection with the pangolin smuggling cases,” said Athgarh divisional forest officer Sasmita Lenka.

State’s chief wildlife warden Hari Shankar Upadhyay said Odisha has witnessed several cases related to smuggling of pangolins.

“Smuggling of this animal is on the rise. There is no consumption of pangolin in Odisha. It has a market in outside of the country like China and Vietnam.
 

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