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Odisha: Wildlife Crime Control Bureau team to begin probe into pangolin smuggling
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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