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| Rs 10 Crore up in smokes as animal skins destroyed | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Oct 7
'Illicit wealth' worth rupees ten crores was up in smokes today as officials of the wildlife department destroyed rare animal skins on directions of Jammu and Kashmir High Court.
Meanwhile, a rare snow leopard was killed by some unidentified persons today in Poonch district.
The animal skins, which were destroyed today in Srinagar, were seized from various fur traders in the Kashmir Valley. Chief wildlife warden A.K Srivastava said the market value of these animal skins were 9.42 crore rupees in 1997, and today it might be higher than that.
Srivastava also said that by destroying these animal skins the authorities want to preserve the conservation of wildlife in the Valley.
Chief Wildlife Veterinarian Dr Mir Masood said there were many endangered animal skins that were destroyed such as common fox, desert cat, leopard cat, leopard skins, tiger skins among many others.
Nearly 32 lakh rare animals, including snow leopards, red deer, musk deer, brown bear, tigers and common leopards, were killed to produce 8.5 lakh garments. The State Government imposed a ban on these animal skins in 1997
In a separate incident, acting on the information, a team of forest department officials recovered the snow leopard's body with multiple injures in the neck from Bafliaz area in the Pir-panchal ranges of Surankote tehsil. This is the first instance of killing of the snow leopard in Pir-panchal ranges in the last two decade, they said.
A case has been registered in this direction, they said adding the post-mortem is being conducted to know the reason behind the animal's death. |
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