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| Man, animal conflict gives sleepless nights to residents | | | Early Times Reporter
Srinagar|Oct 2
The man- animal conflict is becoming a major concern for inhabitants of far- flung areas of valley.
And as frequency of man-animal conflicts in the rural pockets is increasing; wild life authorities in a casual approach blame the lack of staff and equipments as a reason for their failure of checking the growing trend of man-animal conflict.
"We are at losing end as we lack both the staff and equipments for tackling these conflicts, after wild animals sneak into human habitations," chief wild life warden Farooq Ahmad Geelani said.
The increasing incidents have resulted in havoc like situation in valley. Recently people killed a black bear in Budgam after it attacked a minor while he was on way to school. Another incident took place at Shangus - Anantnag where a leopard killed a girl. Similar incidents have also been reported from Jammu areas including Kishtwar, Doda and Bhaderwah.
The wild life department shows helplessness in this concerned situation. The officials say that a proposal has been sent to government for containing the situation in state, but added that the proposal has not been approved as yet.
"The project was sent to government some time back but that has not been approved yet," said Geelani.
The officer said that taking the present conflict situation into consideration, the department needs to open full fledged offices equipped with full fledged instruments like tranquilizer guns and other necessary equipments in every district to deal with the man –animal conflict situation. He further said that this will help them in curbing death of wild animals in these incidents.
"When there is information from any far off area about entry of any wild animal into any human habitation, till we reach there the animals falls prey to local people," he said. A non governmental organization (NGO) has been assigned to study the cause of the man-animal conflict here, he added.
However, other experts believe that occupation of huge forest area by security forces and the instant fencing of borders have forced the wild animals to get down and sneak into the residential areas.
"When the area is occupied or fenced, the animals are forced to sneak into the residential areas. They come for prey and attack humans, but as a result they get killed," said an expert. He said that the matter is of grave concern and steps need to be taken to save the wild life in the state. |
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