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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Ranger Atul Deokar’s walkie-talkie crackled one October night. He heard his colleagues’ panicked voices shouting for back-up: They had been surrounded by 70 villagers armed with axes and sharpened sticks and demanding to hunt in India’s protected Pench Tiger Reserve.
FILE PHOTO: A view of a deforested area in the middle of the Yari plains, in Caqueta, Colombia March 2, 2021. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez/File Photo
The rangers fired into the air after the villagers attempted to set fire to the hut in which the patrol were holed up ending a 30-minute standoff that reflects the pressure that forests and wildlife have come under in Asia, Africa, and Latin America as a result of the pandemic.
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