Nagpur: Even when the State Forestry Department managed to maintain organized hunter gangs in the Gulf after a big harsh action in 2013, there was no enactment in the tiger hunting and leopard in the state.
In more than three years, 24 tigers and 57 leopards have been hunted in the state.
Although the number of deaths and leopards may be quite high, information sought by Social Activists Abhay Kolarkar Between January 2018 and September 2021 are only related to hunting.
It revealed 24 tigers and 57 leopards dead mostly due to poisoning, electric shock and stuck in the wire.
“Despite information sought from January 1, 2018, until September 2021, the number of hunting cases has been reported in 36 months.
In December 2018, 3 tigers died followed in 6 years 2019, 8 in 2020 and 7 in the first four months of 2021 , “Kolarkar said.
Likewise, the 6 leopard was hunted in 2018, followed in 17 of 2019, 29 years 2020 and 5 in the last eight months of this year.
There is a burst in leopard hunting compared to tigers.
Kolarkar said the Forestry Department did not have information related to the number of wild animals killed.
It also did not provide information related to the number of defendants arrested in the case of hunting and status of cases of wildlife crimes.
Wildlife Wing has formed a wildlife crime cell recently in Nagpur.
Nitin Desai, Director of the Indian Wildlife Protection Center (WPSI), said that “Leopard distribution spread across the state and hence the number of high hunting cases compared to tigers, whose numbers were largely concentrated in the Vidarbha region.” Desai added, “this is the case Opportunistic hunting where people must have a direct cable to shine the fence of agriculture to protect plants or kill herbivores for Bushmeat.
Carnivores must come into contact and die.
Death because poisoning also shows retaliation.
“Meanwhile, Kolarkar said information was searched for last month and included a case hunt Until April 25, 2021, for leopards and tigers.
“However, the number of large boiled large cats might be higher because it does not include some leisure tiger spasms and tiger’s body parts recently.
In addition, 50% of the death of leopard is associated with a road hit not respected.
In Maharashtra Barat there is a photo shoot incidence Leopard is prohibited, “said Kolarkar.
Since July, Nagpur division forest officials have captured more than 30 parts of the leopard and accusing, including the skin, bones, claws, canines, mustaches, etc.
from Nagpur and Chandrapur districts.
Some hunters were more captured in raids in Karad and Pune in Maharashtra Barat.