Forest Minister instructs officers to prevent deaths of wild animals by snares

Forest Minister Eshwar B. Khandre connected December 9 instructed the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF) to instrumentality indispensable measures to halt the deaths of chaotic animals caused by snares precocious successful Shivamogga district.

In the past 7 months, arsenic galore arsenic 11 sloth bears and 4 leopards were caught successful snares, allegedly placed by radical to seizure chaotic boars. Of them, 3 bears and 2 leopards died arsenic efforts to rescue them failed.

Taking enactment of the development, the Minister directed the PCCF to organise a programme to dispersed consciousness among radical successful the country against placing snares and instrumentality enactment against those progressive successful specified acts. He besides instructed officers to behaviour patrolling to region snares successful the areas adjacent to forests.

Further, helium asked officers to instrumentality strict enactment against amerciable electrical fencing, which could origin chaotic animals to die.