Wild Life Crime Control Bureau works for control of illegal trade in wild life and its products

Background

The Wild Life Crime Control Bureau was set up for control of illegal trade in wild life and its products. It participates in global operations in coordination with INTERPOL. It also conducts sensitization and capacity building programmes for enforcement agencies, among them officials of the State Police and of the Forest department. Records of arrests made in various States in connection with illegal wildlife trade are kept with the Bureau. The Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 has been amended from time to time for better protection of wild life. India has signed the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, which regulates international trade in wild life and its derivatives. Provisions of CITES are now part of that Act. The work is answered for by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.