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Operation ‘Clean Art’ to crackdown on illegal trade in mongoose hair
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- On October 24, 2019, about 200 officials, including policemen, gathered at Sherkot in Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnor district.
- It was a planned raid, not to apprehend criminals, but to check on organised factories that were making paint brushes with mongoose hair.
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- Operation Clean Art:
(1) It was the first pan India operation to crackdown on the smuggling of mongoose hair in the country.
(2) There are six species of mongoose found in India and we have mostly recovered [in the raids] grey mongoose [hair],” said H. V. Girisha, Regional Deputy Director, Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), New Delhi
(3) Aim: Operation Clean Art was conceived by WCCB with the singular aim of ensuring that the mongoose hair brush trade should be closed down across the country.
- Organised crime: Describing the making of brushes with mongoose hair an “organised crime”, the official said most of these animals were poached by “hunting communities” across the country.
- Legal Provisions: The mongoose is listed in Schedule II Part 2 of the Wildlife Protection Act and any smuggling or possession of its body part is a non-bailable offence.
Source
The Hindu