Srinagar: Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) has organised a three-day training camp in Ladakh, the frontier region of Jammu and Kashmir, to teach its officials about criminal investigation of poaching and hunting cases.

Experts from WTI have taught local officials, including 43 Range Officers, Foresters, Deputy Foresters and 43 Wildlife Guards, about important process of criminal investigation of poaching and hunting of animals, an official spokesman said here today.

They also learnt how to arrest a criminal, maintenance of detention register, lodging of preliminary offences report and to establish information networking through the informers about poaching and hunting in the camp which concluded yesterday.

Terming protection of wildlife as very important for conservation of nature and environment, Deputy Commissioner Leh Ajeet Kumar Sahu said "the need for holding such training camps was imperative to involve common people, police and NGOs in the process."

"This would not only instill the responsibility of protecting natural heritage in us but would also help to spread the significance of the role of wildlife in our life," Sahu said.
Source : PTI