Dr Dipankar Ghose on the Growing Illegal WildlifeTrade Ep#38

Heart of Conservation

In episode #38 I am speaking with Dipankar Ghose, Senior Director: Biodiversity Conservation at WWF-India, also Interim Head of TRAFFIC’s India Office. As a conservator with three decades in the field, he shares rare insights about the poaching of tigers to pangolins, to the exotic pet trade in India. Find out which technology is employed to fight the poaching of rhinos and how partner organisations fight wildlife trade. Discover the first line of defence and community efforts that deter poachers. Dipankar explains the Wildlife Trade Chain with the example of India’s most notorious: Sansar Chand and Veerappan. Find out what you can report a wildlife crime if you have witnessed it. There are so many more stories here… Listen. Show notes coming soon on #earthymattersblog #DipankarGhose #WWF_INDIA #TRAFFIC #IUCN #Tigers #Rhino #Poaching #IllegalWildlifeTrade #Veerappan #CITIES #WildlifeLawEnforcement #ExoticPets #SAWEN #Pangolin #SansarChand #SmugglingSpecies #wildlifeproducts #exoticplants #rhinohorns #tigerskin #pangolinscales #LalithaKrishnan #HeartofConservation #critically_endangered #storiesfromthewild #podcast

Pangolin photo:Rajesh Kumar Mohapatra Podcast cover art created by Lalitha Krishnan

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