National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency of Nigeria has said that it is taking all the necessary steps to rid the country of wildlife crimes, as the recent destruction of seized wildlife stockpiles was intended to discourage perpetrators of the crime.
The Director-General, NESREA, Aliyu Jauro, in Abuja, stated this while receiving wildlife monitoring and enforcement equipment donated to the federal government, by the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime in a bid to bring an end to wildlife trafficking from Nigeria.
Jauro said wildlife traffickers now adopt sophisticated methods, stressing that the agency would need standard equipment to tackle this menace.
He noted that the provision of real time equipment would greatly enhance wildlife monitoring, investigation, intelligence gathering, enforcement, evidence collection, data generation, data management and transmission.
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