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Tiger poaching in Uttarakhand
Ramnagar
(Uttarakhand): Wildlife authorities in a joint operation
with the State police arrested five poachers and seized
tiger skin and bones from their possession at Ramnagar
in Uttarakhand. "One tiger skin, tiger bones, ...cat,
trap, which was used for poaching and also the weapons
by which the tiger was killed have been recovered," said
P C Arya, Sub-Divisional Officer of Ramnagar, Uttarakhand.
"We're investigating five persons and we are also gathering
information of the involvement of four to five more persons,"
said P K Patro, Divisional Forest Officer, Ramnagar, Uttarakhand.
The tiger is facing the threat of extinction with early
results from a 2007 census suggesting there could be as
few as 1,500 tigers left in India, compared to a century
ago when there were around 40,000. Tigers, leopards, rhinos,
reptiles, birds and insects as well as rare species of
trees and plants are also being smuggled into China, Formosa
(Taiwan), Korea, Thailand and Vietnam. There were about
40,000 tigers in India a century ago. A government report
on tiger census, published this year, states that the
tiger population has fallen to 1,411, down from 3,642
in 2002, largely due to dwindling habitat and poaching.
In 2006, a special panel set up by Prime Minister Dr.
Manmohan Singh observed that thousands of poor villagers
inside India's tiger reserves would have to be relocated
to protect the endangered animals from poachers and smugglers.
-Jan
31, 2009
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