Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Shocking case of laxity at Tadoba
Indian express today reports cases of Sambhar poaching from inside the Todaba Tiger Reserve. Apparently tribals residing on the border of the reserve went hunting inside the park and killed two sambhar deer. Just to highlight how lax security inside the park is, the tribals came back two days after the killing to collect the carcass of the animal. Another incident of a wild boar being killed by villagers on the fringes of the park has been reported. As this blog has been saying ground level strengthening of protection systems is key to forest protection plans. With little of no money seeping through to the forest reserves for hiring security and buying tools it is hardly surprising incidents like these are taking place. one can safely imagine 3 such incidents take place for every one that is reported.
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