Dr. Avnish Jolly,30 May:The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) in India is planning to set up a 24×7 toll free help line for the general public to pass on information relating to wildlife crimes.Bureau’s Additional Director Rina Mitra said the functional aspects of the operations of the Bureau will get momentum with such help-line.
The Bureau has five regional offices at Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Jabalpur and three sub-regional offices at Cochin, Guwahati and Amritsar, besides five border units at Moreh, Nathula, Gorakhpur, Motihari and Ramanathapuram to control crimes in wild-life.