prashantsingh wrote:What a fantastic find Najeeb.
I found the last part interesting.
"Shooting of black panther and white tiger strictly prohibited".
I have never heard of any black panthers or white tigers in U.P.
Here is something interesting.
Number of tigers shot from 1946 till '55.
The fantastic terai jungles of U.P. were undoubtedly a heaven for wildife.
Year ------------- Tigers ------------------ Tigress ------------------------------- Total
1946-47 72 44 116
47-48 55 26 81
48-49
49-50 56 26 82
50-51 67 27 94
51-52 65 29 94
52-53 40 57 97
53-54 67 39 106
54-55 61 36 97
Almost a hundred tigers a year.
These figures are from a gentleman who was Chief Wildlife Warden of the state. Mr Vijay Bahadur Singh I.F.S. in the last century.
These figures are from the tigers legally hunted in the state and does not include the big cats which might have been poached.
Interestingly in the same article this gentleman closing words are "The greater danger to tiger comes from another quarter,viz,growing civilization and intensive exploitation of forests. If we go on loosing tiger habitats to cultivation , colonies, industrial projects and plantations , no one can save tigers in this State even if shooting by permit is completely closed. Future of tiger , therefore lies only in the protection of its habitat."
Hello Prashant,
Regarding the shooting of black panthers and white tigers, I was also surprised to read this, but then I thought, printer of this manual must have copied the text from any other manual (place where white tiger or black panther were found)
I am glad to know that you like it. Once I was checking my father's paper and found this manual, there were copies of hunting permits.
Your figure is very useful and as I have heard in my family, when hunting was allowed, very few poacher dare to go and poach in the blocks of registered hunters.
Tiger population decreased due to poaching, encroachment of forest land, cutting of jungle.
I agree with you.
