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Thursday, August 20, 2009

Tadoba man-animal conflict takes deadly turn again

After the lull of a few months when no incidents of tigers attacking humans were reported in the latest one a Leopard attacked and injured 5 people on the outskirts of the tiger reserve. This comes on the back of another reported incident of a tiger killing a man around the reserve last week (http://planettiger.blogspot.com/2009/08/man-animal-conflict-at-tadoba.html)

It doesnt seem the wildlife officials have any plan to prevent these incidents from repeating. After the numerous incidents of the last few years one would expect the forest dept to have learnt some lessons and found out a way of stopping these attacks. But it seems they are just waiting for the villagers to poison and kill these beasts to prevent these attacks. If there is an area taht needs urgent attention on Chandrapur apart from revoking licences for mining it is figuring out a way of preventing these conflits as they can cause serious harm to the wildlife inthe long run


Leopard wreaks havoc in Chandrapur, five injured

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