Nagpur: The seizure of one more tiger skin and various other body parts of the GondPipri forest range under the Division of the Central Chanda on Sunday night only showed a drastic leap in the tiger hunting in Maharashtra.
The state has recorded 35 deaths of tigers, with half (17) death due to hunting, in the past 10 months.
Comparison of the last five years of the database by Indian wildlife protection (WPSI), which works with local communities and government institutions to curb illegal hunting and illegal wildlife trade throughout the country, revealed that the peak of Maharashtra in Tiger Tops above two countries Tiger Tiger bearings – Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka.
In 2021, even when MP recorded 39 tiger deaths, including 11 by carrying out hunting, Maharashtra supported the graph with the hunt for 17 tigers followed by Karnataka, where 17 tigers had died including 4 with hunting.
Even in the case of leopards, Maharashtra is above.
Since January 1, 2021, 165 leopards have died.
These include 24 because of hunting and 141 for other reasons.
In accordance with the Ministry of Forestry, 153 leopards have died in the last 10 months in the state.
From this, 61 died on a hit road.
According to the estimated all India (AITE) -2018, Maharashtra has 312 tigers.
Even when the tiger numbers increased from 190 in 2014 to 312 now, wild hunting has also risen.
Comparison of the last five years shows in 2017, 22 tiger deaths were reported with 7 cases of illegal hunting.
In 2021, 35 tigers had died.
The case of hunting and seizures has more than doubled to 17.
The numbers of the state forest department until November 12, 2021, revealed that 26 tigers had died this year including 8 with hunting.
However, the numbers did not include the foreclosure of the body parts since July this year, where 58 was accused of the tiger and bone body parts captured by the Nagpur Forest Division officials.
“The seizure involves the murder of at least 7 tigers from the region.
All who were accused of 58 have been returned to the Masters (MCR) and investigations still lit,” said senior forest officials to Ti.
If this 7 tiger number is added to the 26th state, the number of deaths is approaching the WPSI database.
Nitin Desai, Director of the Wpsi Center, “The way the tiger skin confiscated in GondPipi has been skinned, it appears to be a result of local hunter Middle.
Apart from their historical range, tigers appear in extraordinary places.
They are often killed in electric traps or wires founded by local hunters to kill Herbivores for Bushmeat.
Exactly this reason all local hunters must be handled strongly or us Will continue to count dead tigers, “Desai said.
“Fast view on statistics revealed that there was a drastic increase in the case of hunting / local tiger seizures in 2021 compared to the previous four years.
It should be investigated if local hunter desperate to get money and try to sell parts of the tiger, or they are insulted by someone for Do it, “he added.
“Likewise, leopard mortality has increased dramatically in the last three years.
The Leopard Death Committee has made several recommendations and the same thing implemented.
Only time will notify whether they produce positive results,” Desai said.