Rajkot: Livestock farmers, have endangered Kharaai camels, known as winners of champions, can consider themselves lucky.
But the owner of these camels in the Jamnagar district and Devbhumi Dwarka, feel that these animals are accountable for them.
In fact, they really found buyers.
Reason: camels don’t get their food! Congressers mostly eat mangrove, which developed near Marine National Park.
Being a protected area, the camel that enters there for food leads to a fight between the owner and staff of the Ministry of Forestry.
There are nearly 600 camels in two districts.
According to estimates given by Sahjeevan, a voluntary organization that works for this species conservation.
Mahendra Bhanani, the organizational program coordinator, said, “After Marine National Park was formed in 1994, the limit had been expanded continuously by the Ministry of Forestry.
According to the rules, the forestry department does not allow camels to graze in their area.
If this situation continues, the survival of camels Difficult Kharai because they only feed the mangroves.
“He added that because of food labor, many camel owners migrated or were forced to sell their camels at Kutch.
Kutch has a population of nearly 6,000 camels.
The main income of breeders in two districts is camel milk besides using it as a mode of transportation.
They are also involved in agricultural activities.
Lakha Rabari, a camel breeder from Dadi Taluka in Khambhalia Taluka, said, “I have 25 camels but now I sell it in the Gir Somnath and Kutch district, because they don’t get enough food here” Keep Rabari from Chudeshwar Village added, “We demanded In order for the government to declare a protected area near the beach to allow camels to graze.
This camel was brought here before the independence of Kutch and now they were forced to migrate.
“There are areas in the protected gear zone where, with certain terms and conditions of livestock breeders are given permission to graze their animals.
Camel farmers request the same facilities in the Marine National Park area.
Camel Kharai was found from Dwarka to Jodiya.
Jamnagar and one taluka from the Morbi district.
However, forestry department officials, however, have different versions.
They claimed not all camels who ate like a prey were C 50 species and some farmers in the Jamnagar district even left them until they were pregnant.
It produces uncontrolled pastors in the forest area.
Often, when the Ministry of Forestry finds a camel grazing in their land, it becomes difficult to track the owner.
When contacted, YM Jadyja, Marine National Park forest officials, Jodiya, “we cannot allow uncontrolled pastors but only graze like that in the gear but it is a policy decision and will be taken by Gandhinagar.”