That the country’s CBI and ED like premier investigating agencies should be entrusted with the task of stopping the illegal trade in wildlife as suggested by the Chief Justice of India, has far reaching objectives in that the two top professional agencies could be expected to effectively contain this trade which was imperilling the wildlife in the country many species of which, were at the brink of extinction. It also is an admission of the fact that the State or the UT police force whichever the case, could ordinarily not achieve much success due to host of reasons in putting an effective stop to such a trade which had other offshoots like trading in drugs, narcotics , smuggling of arms and creating other law and order problems in the country.
The proceeds of such wildlife trade were ostensibly being used for fuelling other criminal activities and needed to be thoroughly checked. Otherwise also, due to mass urbanisation and ”invading ” forest lands and thus limiting the space for habitats for our wildlife, the natural equations were getting vastly disturbed due to which we find on many occasions, wild animals like jaguars, leopards, elephants, wolves etc intruding into the human habitats. We, therefore, have to protect, preserve and sustain our forests for which if stringent measures too are taken, no one should have any qualms about that.
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