GUWAHATI: Wildlife sniffer dog Quarmy from the Biswanath Wildlife Division in Assam won a special prize for combating wildlife crime.
He and his handlers Lakhmi Nandan Baruah and Johnson Teron were trained at the NTCD, BSF Academy, Gwalior in 2017.
It is to be mentioned that over a period of just two years of deployment, Quarmy has helped in solving several wildlife crime cases and provided crucial leads to enforcement agencies.
Ahead of the Global Tiger Day which will be observed on July 29 a special contest for the wildlife sniffer dogs under the banner of ‘Canines for Felines’ was organized. Quarmy is trained under ‘Traffic’ – a wildlife trade monitoring network.
While Nirman, a wildlife sniffer dog from the Tiger Strike Force in Satna was the overall winner of Canines for Felines and Myna, a wildlife sniffer dog from Tiger Strike Force in Indore was runner up.