WildAnimal Menace PM urged to call meeting of national board
Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 5:43 am
is this true or just a way to get hunting going again..? from the The Tribune
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2010/20101223/punjab.htm#1
Sarbjit Dhaliwal/TNS
Jalandhar, December 22
As the wild animal menace has become acute in this region, including Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh, wildlife experts have urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to convene a meeting of the National Board for Wildlife immediately to tackle the issue.
The Prime Minister is the Chairman of the board.
The Himachal Pradesh Government has already issued a limited number of permits to cull the wild animals, which have become a threat to crops and even in some cases to human beings, such as monkeys and wild boars. Leopards entering areas of Punjab from lower forest regions of Himachal Pradesh have been posing a danger to human settlements.
Wildlife expert Gurmeet Singh said today that there was a need of scientific management of wild animals. “We should adopt the practices of developed countries to manage the wild animal population,” he said.
The culling of wild animals should also be handled in scientific manner and not haphazardly.
To deal with the monkey menace, he said the ban on export of monkeys should be lifted straightaway.
He said if permits could be given to kill monkeys what was the harm in allowing the export of these animals.
He said a meeting of the board should be convened to discuss the issues related to wild animals.
The officials concerned of the Wildlife Department have apprehensions with regard to the large scale of spill over in the state of wild animals from Himachal Pradesh where culling of such animals had been allowed. Punjab already have monkeys and wild boars in a large number.
Besides it, number of sambhars and blue bulls has also gone up substantially.
Blue bulls cause damage to crops at a large scale in the Mansa-Bathinda belt. Wild boars and sambhars cause damage in the Kandi belt.
Issues related to wild animals were not confined only to this region. Many other states were also facing problems in this regard. Some months ago, a meeting was convened by the Union Agriculture Ministry to discuss the damage caused to crops by herds of blue bulls. However, no concrete decision was taken at that meeting. Farmers at that meeting had urged the authorities concerned to tackle the menace soon. At the meeting, the Centre had declined to revive the practice of hunting of wild animals in any manner.
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2010/20101223/punjab.htm#1
Sarbjit Dhaliwal/TNS
Jalandhar, December 22
As the wild animal menace has become acute in this region, including Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh, wildlife experts have urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to convene a meeting of the National Board for Wildlife immediately to tackle the issue.
The Prime Minister is the Chairman of the board.
The Himachal Pradesh Government has already issued a limited number of permits to cull the wild animals, which have become a threat to crops and even in some cases to human beings, such as monkeys and wild boars. Leopards entering areas of Punjab from lower forest regions of Himachal Pradesh have been posing a danger to human settlements.
Wildlife expert Gurmeet Singh said today that there was a need of scientific management of wild animals. “We should adopt the practices of developed countries to manage the wild animal population,” he said.
The culling of wild animals should also be handled in scientific manner and not haphazardly.
To deal with the monkey menace, he said the ban on export of monkeys should be lifted straightaway.
He said if permits could be given to kill monkeys what was the harm in allowing the export of these animals.
He said a meeting of the board should be convened to discuss the issues related to wild animals.
The officials concerned of the Wildlife Department have apprehensions with regard to the large scale of spill over in the state of wild animals from Himachal Pradesh where culling of such animals had been allowed. Punjab already have monkeys and wild boars in a large number.
Besides it, number of sambhars and blue bulls has also gone up substantially.
Blue bulls cause damage to crops at a large scale in the Mansa-Bathinda belt. Wild boars and sambhars cause damage in the Kandi belt.
Issues related to wild animals were not confined only to this region. Many other states were also facing problems in this regard. Some months ago, a meeting was convened by the Union Agriculture Ministry to discuss the damage caused to crops by herds of blue bulls. However, no concrete decision was taken at that meeting. Farmers at that meeting had urged the authorities concerned to tackle the menace soon. At the meeting, the Centre had declined to revive the practice of hunting of wild animals in any manner.
,i will explain,each wooded is area by nature is designed to sustain a particular no of various species of wildlife,ist the balance was upset by the predators ( Tigers/Leopards/Wolfs,etc,etc},being wiped out by Sansar Chand and Co,now the herbivores are thriving and lack of space and food is putting these guys out in the habitat ed areas.A study was conducted by the Fish & game Deptt in US which said the for a sustainable population of the Wild Boar 7 out of 10 Boars should be culled,US is facing the Pig Bomb these days,Wildlife has to be culled so that the natural surrounding can support it. 