This bit of info comes in from the Corbett foundation.
This is what we do to leopards-beat them, burn them, stone them-and skin them for trade.
Conflict is a very serious concern..and of course the most difficult, complex issue to tackle.
Yesterday 3 individuals were injured by a leopard in Dhamdhar village in Kalagarh Tiger Reserve, one of the two divisions of Corbett TR. The villagers somehow locked the leopard in a cattle shed. The forest department team managed to catch and put the leopard into a cage. The moment department started its transportation to nearest range office located in Rathuwadhab, violent mob attacked the staff, got hold of cage, attacked leopard inside the cage using iron rods, sickles, other sort of available items and finally burnt it alive by pouring kerosene and petrol on it. The department has lodged complaint against about ten individuals.
6 comments:
so so brutal.... i wonder if we can tolerate such when it comes to us... sometimes i also wonder, why no if they can cause homicides n genocides in war and religion riots, killing poor animals is not a big deal for human..! nevertheless.. i got to see this movie- 2 brothers yesterday.. you should also watch it.
regards,
amtrips
(amrita tripathy)
brutal to say the least!!!.in most of these cases some people act as a catalyst & instigate villegers ,few years back i was witness to such a incident in Katerniaghat but the dept acted promptly & taken police in their side who quickly nabbed the miscreants b4 they torched the hapless leopard
It is really sad. I belong to the same state and always believed that villagers always understood wildlife more than the urban population. Having said that the government to needs to pulls its socks up and assure saftey to both the humans.
They should do a special screening of two brothers for the people there.
There is no animal so brutal as humans. The leopard's crime was no doubt its hunger. For this it suffered unknown torments and finally died a horrible death. It is beyond my comprehension how humans can do this to a fellow living being.
The incident is no doubt heartrending for many of us; no one deserves to die in that manner.
It is even more saddening because we don't know when, if at all, the miscreants will face the consequences of their atrocity.
This once again highlights the human-animal conflict, for food and space, as the single major cause of the disappearing wildlife.
Punishing those people might only further aggravate this tussle, and next time the people may repeat this thing without even informing the Forest dept. But then, trying to patiently educate the Humans to share their resources, even while such killings keep occurring around us, requires Herculean strength and will power!
Read my story on the leopard (one or two of my stories should be on this blog)..have been following this issue since a long time-its a nightmare, the plight of the leopard, and its a beautiful, beautiful cat..and inherently, shy , secretive..yet, adaptable..we are pushing it into this horrifying conflict situation..its wants to stay away from people, ever more than the people wanting to stay away from him. and please dont hold Two brothers as the ultimate wildlife film, it has little to do with conservation..but that's another story
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