Nagpur: To ensure the appearance of tigers and leopards guaranteed to visitors at Balasaheb Thackeray Gorewada International Zoological Park, the staff posted to monitor animals using new tricks, including throwing stones to carry animals from grass and bushes.
In one incident, visitors from Bhopal, Mitali Chatterjee and Shreya Chatterjee, who were visiting the park on Tuesday, alleged that the tigers sitting in grassy bushes were forced out by monitoring staff from outside the rock near them.
“This is a blatant violation of the Wildlife Law (Protection), 1972 but also the norms of the Central Zoo Authority (CZA),” Mitali said.
“We were in the park around 1.30 a night.
The two tigers were not visible.
When the tiger did not come out of the bush, the guide, Nilesh Mendhe, called the staff on the street service outside the safari cage to push them out.
We were surprised to see the staff throwing.
3-4 stones at the tiger.
This is done to give good animal sightings, “Shreya said.
However, the Park Manager of the Park Pramod Panchbhai denied the allegations.
He said, “The staff posted on the street service cared and difficult to believe that they threw stones at the tiger.
The tourists misinterpreted the incident.
Often, the animals did not return to the night shelter and the staff posted to drive them away Shelter.
“Panchbhai said previously there were many complaints from visitors who were disappointed with the sightings of bad tigers because of high grass at the safari cage.
“Our efforts are seeing that tourists enjoy the maximum sightings in Indian safari scattered in 125 hectares.
25 hectares of tiger safari is part of it and these days, the two tigers are mostly moved on the outskirts.
Guide and staff posted outside the coordination cage To ensure the appearance but it is not at the cost of teasing animals.
“Previously, the Pranay Nagpur nature lovers on October 5 filed a complaint about his poor experience with the apparition of forced tigers for visitors.
“The driver and guide even violated the speed norms to require visitors to ensure tiger sightings.
This guide is a constant touch with the staff of the land to track tigers and leopards.
While doing so, the sense of enjoying forest visits is completely missed,” Ade said.
One more visitor, Rushab Rathod, also Nagpur, has shared a video where the driver rises because it’s too late.
“Tigers sit on the road and the driver can easily move the bus without disturbing the animal.
But the driver speeds up the vehicle, forcing the tigress to jump to the other side.”