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Operation Clean Art – Protecting Mongoose
December 2 , 2019
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- The first pan India operation to crackdown on the smuggling of mongoose hair in the country was conducted recently.
- Codenamed “Operation Clean Art”, raids were carried out in U.P, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Kerala.
- Factories which were making paint burshes with mongoose hair were targeted.
- There are six species of mongoose found in India and mostly the hair of “grey mongoose” were recovered.
- 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.
- The operation was conceived by Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB).
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