Wildlife Crime and Technologies used for its Prevention

Wildlife crime is any illegal act committed causing threat to animal and plant species. Nowadays, such type of crimes became a matter of serious concern for the forest department and other concerned authorities. In this paper we have discussed about the wildlife crime rate of Wildlife division North of West Bengal and the technologies they use to prevent such crimes.

The data for the study were collected through various techniques such as-census survey, interview, case study and data collected from secondary sources. All those data collected from three divisions were segregated and analyzed.

According to the data collected for last 10 years shows that highest number of illegal trading has been reported among which trading of Rhinoceros horns are mostly in demand as compared to others. Also, 30 and 26 cases of hunting and poaching were reported respectively for past 10 years.

Although various initiatives and protective measures are taken by the forest department by using modern technologies but too delay in wildlife crime cases in court results in disappointment among officials. Early disposal and conviction will definitely give confidence to officials and discourage the offenders from committing such type of crime.