7 November 2018 12:00 am
While Anti-Poaching Units have increased and poachers have been apprehended, very often convicting them of the crime is impossible without physical evidence. These poachers get away, only to return to the jungle and start poaching again.
Introducing forensic training to Rangers and Anti-Poaching personnel to document the wildlife crime scene, preserve and collect evidence, and using the evidence to substantiate the crime, is becoming successful.
Ravi Perera has been a Crime Scene Investigator for law enforcement in the United States for 24 years. Having graduated from the FBI
Forensic Academy in Quantico, Virginia, he is a crime scene instructor specializing in shooting
reconstruction and surveillance photography. Ravi is also certified in electronic forensics, where analysis of cell phones and computers produce significant evidence of criminal activity.
3Ravi is the CEO of Serendipity Wildlife Foundation, and has trained Anti-Poaching Units in Kenya, and also introduced Gun Shot Residue testing, which helps to identify the shooter when many people are present at a crime scene.
Last year a project was started by him to detect fingerprints from elephant tusks and rhino horn, which would help identify individuals involved not only in poaching, but in trafficking as well. The second phase of the project is to start a fingerprint database dedicated only to wildlife crimes.
Wildlife & Nature Protection Society (WNPS) is happy to announce that Mr. Ravi Perera will be presenting the November instalment of its monthly Lecture Series on 15th November, 2018 at the Jasmine Hall BMICH starting at 6.00 pm.
The WNPS Public Lecture is open to all members and non-members. Free Entrance.
November instalment of its monthly Lecture Series on 15th November, 2018 at the Jasmine Hall BMICH starting at 6.00 pm.
The WNPS Public Lecture is open to all members and non-members. Free Entrance.