Wildlife Poaching: Red Alert Issued for Tiger Reserves

NEW DELHI: The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau of India has issued a ‘Red Alert and cautioned multiple authorities across the country against possible hunting gangs that are on the prowl in the other areas of the tiger reserves of the country. This alert was issued on Thursday by the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau.

The bureau mentioned that some hunting gangs are active around various tiger reserves across the country and the warning was issued to the field directors of the tiger reserves. Warnings were issued for the tiger reserves of Satoura, Tadoba, Pench, Corbett, Rajaji, Amangarh, Pilighit, and Valmiki, as well as tiger-bearing areas such as Balaghat, Gadchiroli, and Chandrapur.

The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau told the field directors of all tiger reserves to immediately intensify patrolling in sensitive areas of the parks under them. It also urged the authorities to be in the lookout for suspected nomadic people living in tents, temples, railway stations, bus stations, abandoned buildings, and public shelters and inform the police if they are found. They also ordered that the identified areas should also be sanitised as a preventive measure against possible poaching.

Assam Police had arrested four people from the Dharapur locality of Azara on Wednesday and recovered the skin of a tiger along with its bones and nails. The identities of the four arrested people were revealed by police sources to be Ramu Das, Om Prakash, Raiputi, and Maya. While the first two are men, the latter two are women, and all of them belong to the state of Haryana. They had taken a rented accommodation in Dharapur Notunbasti just two days before they were caught. On questioning, they mentioned that they were mere mules in the trade and were transporting the contraband for a sum of Rs 25000. They also mentioned that they had picked up the items from Bihar. The police authorities picked them up from the rented accommodations and handed them over to the forest department of the state.

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