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Maharashtra Forest Minister Ganesh Naik connected Tuesday stated helium has suggested that wood officials merchandise ample numbers of goats successful forests to forestall leopards from entering quality settlements successful hunt of food.
“The State has to wage Rs. 1 crore compensation if 4 radical suffer their lives successful the leopard attack. Let’s presume 4 radical are killed, and that compensation wealth could beryllium utilized to merchandise the goats worthy Rs 1 crore into the forest. As leopards volition get capable nutrient successful the forest, they mightiness not task into quality settlements,” helium said.
Mr Naik was addressing a calling attraction question raised by NCP (SP) MLA Jitendra Awhad connected the 2nd time of the wintertime league successful Nagpur. Mr Awhad said that the authorities is witnessing an “alarming” summation successful leopard attacks.
The leopard attacks person accrued rapidly successful Pune, Ahilyanagar, Junnar, and different areas, and present the contented has entered the assembly, wherever Mr Naik discussed measures to curb attacks. Earlier, the Maharashtra authorities claimed that astir 1,300 leopards are contiguous successful the Pune and Ahilyanagar districts. The experts alleged that the reasons are shrinking forests, a deficiency of nutrient successful jungles, and an summation successful the leopard’s population.
The Maharashtra authorities has sent a connection to the Centre to categorise the leopard arsenic a Schedule-II carnal and assistance support for sterilisation.
“The Centre has fixed support to sterilise lone 5 animals connected an experimental ground and hold for 3 years for impact. However, the State has decided to instrumentality up the contented again aft experimenting for six months,” Mr Naik said. Days ago, Mr Naik besides made a remark specified arsenic “human-eater leopard to beryllium changeable astatine sight”.
While speaking to media persons, helium pointed retired that owed to a deficiency of fruit-bearing trees successful forests, determination is simply a deficiency of carnivorous animals for leopards to devour arsenic food. A leopard is nary much a wood animal, but a sugarcane animal. We person taken a basal that the leopards, which are increasing successful non-forest areas, should not beryllium counted successful the chaotic carnal census.
Meanwhile, Congress MLA Nana Patole raised his apprehensions, saying, “Such a connection hardly gets accepted, and arsenic a idiosyncratic who was portion of the committee connected wildlife issues, I tin accidental the authorities volition not o.k. of shifting leopards to Schedule-II.”
Junnar MLA Sharad Sonawane reflected connected the deaths successful a leopard onslaught and said, “55 radical person died truthful far,” and asked to summation the capableness of the leopard rescue centre successful his constituency.
