PM’s role sought to check tiger poaching

The Assam Tribune , Sunday, June 04, 2006
Correspondent : Staff Reporter
GUWAHATI, June 3 – A frontline conservation group of Asom, Early Birds, yesterday sent a detailed communiqué to the Prime Minister informing him about the threats to the tiger population, its habitat, and its prey-base, and seeking positive intervention.

Besides, Early Birds demanded that a high-level enquiry be instituted to look into poaching in Asom, which would lead towards cracking the nexus between poachers-traders so that the region’s rich and rare biodiversity could be protected.

The letter referred to newspaper reports on the killing of a Royal Bengal Tiger by poachers in the Laokhowa Wildlife Sanctuary and highlighted how the endangered species was confronting a bleak future in parts of the State.

It was mentioned that encroachers killed two Royal Bengal tigers at the Orang WLS’s in May last year by poisoning a carcass, which they subsequently consumed. Illegal acts going on inside several other protected areas were also stated in the dispatch. Significantly, in most cases the perpetrators of the crimes were never identified or prosecuted. This appeared as a tacit approval for poachers to carry on with their nefarious activities.

Early Birds president Moloy Boruah told The Assam Tribune that his organisation was worried over the future of tigers and therefore wanted the Prime Minister to intervene in protecting the dwindling number of tigers. “Not just the threats to the tigers, their habitat and prey-base also require stricter protection.”

The letter to the Prime Minister alluded to some other related subjects, including the inadequate protection of the Amchang Wildlife Sanctuary and the problems faced by the State’s elephant population, which especially was at the receiving end of a conflict with human beings.

 
SOURCE : The Assam Tribune, Sunday, June 04,2006
 


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