dehradun union environment minister anil madhav dave who was in dehradun to interact with new batch of indian forest service officials at indira gandhi national forest academy said that the demonetisation would bring down poaching while replying to query of media on steady occurrences of poaching activities in the state he said the way demonetization would hit terrorism and naxalism hard it would also restrain poaching activities in the same vein the poachers would not have the required cash to carry out their transactions related to illegal wildlife trade they would also not prefer to reveal their identities by using digital methods so their movement would automatically halt with demonetisationhe said wildlife crime control bureau too is getting digitized the process has already begun so the digitization would make a big dent in the wildlife crime scenario across the countryas par the data available with the special task force in the state recovery of 120 leopards and five tiger skins 69 elephant tusks 391 alive turtle of endangered species 183 bones of wild animals 144 horns of deer have been made in the state since 2011 onwards last month only around eight bile pods of himalayan black bear were seized from the accused in three separate incidents in the state big haul of six tiger skins in the month of march and seven leopard skins from a village in pauri in april this year had shaken the wildlife departmentminister has also convened a meeting of all the members of parliament to synergise a strategy to deal with the degrading condition of himalayas the mountain range of himalaya is the most important the issue of lack of solid waste management at the himalayas emerged as the biggest worry for environmentalists at the un climate change conference at morocco last monththe other related issues such as fragmentation of forests shrinking glaciers and degrading health of rivers in himalayas evoked similar response i have now convened a meeting of all mps at new delhi to formulate concrete action plan in this regard he saidhe expressed his concern over environment pollution he said now we are more aware after recent air pollution crisis of delhi he added that if we are unable to change our lifestyle we must be ready to keep fresh air in bottles besides bottled drinking water