Nagpur: Conservationist Wildlife disagree with the Union Road and Highways statement Nitin Gadkari at Lok Sabha that “There was no incident of the murder of wild animals in a road accident on the National Highway (NHS) reported by Morth for the past 3 years in the country”.
Claims by Gadkari on July 22 came to questions that were not sued by MP BJP Sangamlal Kunggerin Gupta who wanted to know the number of wild animals were killed (wise) in a road accident on the NHS during the last three years in the country, and the steps were Taken by the government to prevent the operation and rescue of the operation.
Conservationists say Gadkari claims are not true.
They said, “Although technically the minister of the highway may be true because Mort does not record wild animals and it is done by the Department of Forest, the facts cannot be ruled out that some such animals include tigers, leopards, and herbivores have died on the highway.
On the road Hit in the past.
Nhai must be responsible for the reluctance to take mitigation steps.
“Even though Gadkari led the way by taking the Mitigation Steps on the NH7, it was only after a long battle on the Nagpur bench the Bombay High Court.
According to a leading NGO working for wildlife conservation in this country, the death of 185 leopards has been recorded in hit roads since 2019 to date.
Data shows that most of these deaths are in the NHS.
On May 24, TOI reported that in accordance with the official data purchased based on RTI Act, 87 leopards died in Maharashtra in the first four months of this year.
Of these, 33 was killed in an accident on the road.
Most of these roads are widened by NHAI in the state.
Two tigers have died on the road hit in the past six months.
A tiger was knocked off on January 7 on Jalan Raya Ramnagar-Nainital in Uttarkhand.
On June 18, other sub-adult tigers died while crossing NH-43 in the MP district of Umaria.
On April 19, a young tiger suffered a thigh fracture after being hit by a vehicle at NH-7 near Delaapar.
The incident occurred close to the structure of wildlife mitigation.
Tiger was in a lifetime of captivity at Gorewada.
On February 4, 2019, a traceable tiger was seriously injured at NH-7 near Paoni at NH-7.
“These are just a few examples.
At the national level, there may be many animals that are dying on the highway but it is not considered.
It attracts the attention of wildlife lovers when it comes to tigers or leopards,” said Young Naturalist Himanshu Bagde.
“The Ministerial Statement may be true but it does not always mean that there is no way to kill at all.
Our own database has thousands of data points hundreds of species killed.
Almost every week, 2 leopard dies on Indian streets and this might be the top of the iceberg because of a lot Who killed the road that was not recorded, “said Milind Parawam, an ecological expert road with the Wildlife Conservation Trust (WCT).
PARWAWAM, Member of the IUCN connectivity conservation group (CCSG), said, “Executing institutions, especially contractors and engineers.
They may not consider recording kill animals as their responsibility.
Consider the fact that recently five years ago the Maharashtra Forest Department itself Recognizing that it did not have data about the murder of the road on the NH7, it was very likely that road implementers have not reported murder.
“Pariwakam added,” At the same time, NHAI has a vehicle patrolling each stretch and no other agents can match the resources that can match the resources Significant.
If the NHAI patrol vehicle can collect photos marked by geographically from road murder, data can be very helpful in building mitigation measures that can reduce the roadkill.
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