The Southern States Forest Ministers have passed a
unanimous resolution in a conference to establish a ‘Regional Wildlife Crime
Control Bureau’ in place of National Wildlife Crime Control Bureau to address
the wild life and forest, wood smuggling related problems in the southern
states in the country.
Southern states Forest Ministers conference was held
in Tiruvananthapuram in Kerala in which Minister for Forest and environment
Jogu Ramanna participated.
Forest Ministers stressed upon the coordinated and
collective efforts to control the wood smuggling and indiscriminate felling of
trees in the forests. Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandi presided over the
conference.
In a statement issued after conference, Jogu Ramanna
informed that Forests Minister of Southern states opined that there was need of
establishment of Regional Wild Life Crime Bureau as the wood smugglers have
become major threat to the forests and wild life.
He said Southern States Forest Ministers’ council
was established under the chairman ship of Kerala Forest Minister Thiruvanchoor
Radhakrishnan. The council will address the problems related to forest, wild
life and wood smuggling and take steps to tackle these problems in the southern
states.
JoguRamanna informed that they have decided to
organize Southern states Forest Ministers’ conference in November, 2015 in
Hyderabad.
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