Narendra Modi's Cabinet approves MoU between USA and India to enhance cooperation in wildlife conservation
India will sign a MoU with the USA for increasing the cooperation between the two countries for Wildlife Conservation and checking wildlife trafficking. India is likely to benefit a lot from the expertise of various American institutions for Wildlife conservation, management of wilderness areas and to fight illegal trade in wildlife.

Every year a lot of charismatic species get poached from our forests. According to WPSI statistics 30 tiger deaths in 2016 is due to poaching. According to conventional logic, for every one seizure another nine go unnoticed. So from that logic about 300 tiger deaths could have taken place in 2016 due to poaching. It is more than 10% of our claimed wild tiger population. The cooperation in wildlife forensics will help a lot in the collecting evidence to nail wildlife crimes. The species conservation efforts will also likely get a boost from the cooperation in conservation genetics. The actual details of cooperation is yet to be known.

The cooperation will also help in institutional capacity building of the UNESCO Category -2 - centre at WII (Wildlife Institute of India).

The use of IT in strengthening the interface of protected area managers with the local people for sensitizing them about Nature Interpretation and Conservation Awareness: Use of information technology in strengthening interface of forest managers with the people will help in sensitising people, especially the youth and children, in making them understand the intricate relationships between various species and complex issues related to the conservation of the incredible bio- diversity of this country.