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- No sooner had India wrapped up celebrations of its annual “Wildlife Week” (October 2-8) — spotlighting the richness and diversity of its flora and fauna than the sensational conviction of a notorious group of Indian wildlife traffickers grabbed headlines ______.
Question 1:
No sooner had India wrapped up celebrations of its annual “Wildlife Week” (October 2-8) — spotlighting the richness and diversity of its flora and fauna than the sensational conviction of a notorious group of Indian wildlife traffickers grabbed headlines ______. But what had animal activists up in arms was the disproportionately small punishment (four years in jail) meted out to the criminals compared to the magnitude of the crime they had committed. A. The gang was involved in smuggling the body parts of 125 tigers and 1,200 leopards.
B. This is not to suggest that India lacks a robust legal and policy framework to regulate and restrict the wildlife trade.
C. Blackbucks, blue bulls, chinkaras, elephants, leopards, rhinoceroses, spotted deer, and wild boars are all threatened.
D. The number of species that are poached or illegally traded in the country likewise trended upwards from 400 in 2014 to 465 in 2016, the book notes.
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