The seventh meeting of State Board for Wildlife here on Friday decided to have a Wildlife Crime Control Unit having its headquarters in Shimla and equipped with mobility provision and linkages with sensitive zones identified as Kinnaur, Kullu, Dharamsala and Chamba to contain poaching.
Himachal CM Virbhadra Singh chaired the meeting along with Forest Minister Thakur Singh Bharmouri.
A meeting had already been held in this regard with the police authorities for collaboration and set-up arrangement to check wild life offences. The identified zones would be manned by a SP level officer along with a Divisional Forest Officer on deputation, range officers, deputy rangers and Forest guards along with other police officials.
Besides, 45 trap cameras had been installed in the Great Himalayan National Park (a world heritage site in the Tirthan Valley of Kullu district) installed at different sensitive and vulnerable locations besides extensive poaching patrolling exercises.