Wild Life in India under grave threat

Sixteen Asiatic lions were killed in Gir Forest Sanctuary in the first three months of this year. Shockingly, these killings happened in ten separate incidents. Apparently, the culprits have been found, a gang which killed the lions with poison, traps and sharpened bamboo sticks. Its shocking that these kind of incidents are allowed to happen. It simply cannot, not without the connivance of forest guards. The guards are believed to be undergoing lie detector tests now.

But the government is not tackling this issue on a war footing. Inspite of these incidents being reported widely in the media, the weekly cabinet meeting on on Wednesday (4th) did not discuss the issue.

Our tigers are suffering the same fate. All India statistics show that while there were 40,000 tigers at the beginning of the 20th century, today the exact number could be barely over a thousand! However, official figures tell a different story, and say that there are about 3000 plus tigers, but conservationists do not believe these figures.
Everyone knows what happened in Sariska Game Reserve in Rajasthan. There is not a single tiger left there. In fact, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) in a 2006 report blamed the Rajasthan Government squarely for its “complete failure” in controlling poaching and encroachment on forest land.

All in all, its clear that our government is not serious about protecting Wildlife. Here we are, heading towards being the number two economy by 2050, but Wildlife can go take a back seat.

(Photos sourced from birdsart.com and the bbc

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john fedden Says:

April 16, 2007 at 3:13 pm

I agree with every thing you say , Richard Attenbourgh has made a film about it shown this week on BBC> Tv outlining the problems , in cluding the CHINA AND TIBETIAN trade in tiger parts , also the chinese breeding of tigers in CAPTIVITY ,for chinease medicine , so called God save from superstions, no the goverment is not dealing with it , only atomic power stations and the bush goverment

Yours John fedden

Avinash Says:

September 26, 2007 at 8:15 pm

I agree to u John fedden.To be honest if the GOVT. takes it serious then i dont think anyone can even cut a log from the forest.God knows when indians would stop filling their pockets n think about this seriously.

JAGDEEP DABAS Says:

October 4, 2007 at 11:07 am

NIDAN JAN KALAYAN SAMITI (Regd).
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Add:Vill-Sultan Pur Dabas, Po-Pooth Khurd , Delhi-39
Phone – 011 20521654, 09868950755 E-mail – ngo.nidan@yahoo.co.in
Ref. No- 648 Date- 04/10/07
To,
The Director,

,
New Delhi,
Sub- For make wild animal century( Forest) in our area.
Respected Sir,
We are running an NGO (NJKS) in Delhi. Our Origination doing a lot of welfare works to maintain the greenness in our rural area. Many types of welfare work done by us like save Tree & animals, Save Life. The NGO workers want to grow the trees for better future. Many times we organize a plant growing camp. Every year we grow a lot of plant. We collect a lot of people in camp. We originates a camp on environment that how can we get best future by save the trees. Some senior citizen also gave the speech in these camps. Every one in this camp took promise to grow minimum five trees in one year. These camps are organizing in rainy sessions. It is good for growing the small plant. We tells the peoples if we cut down trees than it is very harmfull for environment. Our origination organized a lot of Plant growing Camp in our village by time to time . Our village have a of large area of forest but govt is put it in industrial area if you give attention on it than it goes in the forest . By this our village gets greenness area. We know plant is necessary for life. Our rural area helps to get a lot of green environment. It helps all the society as well as our Country progress. We wrote a letter to forest Minster to put our village the green land and by this about 60 acres area put to develops the Forest city .If you give this award to our NGO than We, Our Villagers & our origination very thankful to you for it.
Yours truly,
Jagdeep Dabas
(President NJKS).

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ak Says:

April 4, 2008 at 6:45 pm

This country had most varied and protected wildlife a hundred years before but thanks to our governments after independence that our wildlife has gone down to 5% of what it was in 1900. If government cannot handle a handful of poachers with such a big force of forest officials etc.,it can easily be interpretted that everybody, from Bahalias upto concerned Ministries of this country has a role to play in creating this state of wildlife and environment. I believe every GOVERNMENT department for wildlife and environment is full of either corrupt people or those who do not know what they are supposed to do.