Forest Officials Kill Wild Buffalo in Biswanath, Issues Clarification
Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) of Biswanath, Mukut Das said that the forest officials were forced to shoot the buffalo in order to save their lives
| 15 Jan 2021 12:34 PM GMT
Biswanath Chariali: Within hours of accusations levelled against the Forest Department officials of Biswanath Chariali on killing the wild water buffalo on Friday, the forest department held a press conference and said that the forest officials killed the wild buffalo in self-defense.
Addressing the media, Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) of Biswanath, Mukut Das said, On Friday a wild buffalo killed one person named Sukur Ali in Komalia village in Biswanath, Assam. And after the incident took place our officials along with police personnel reached the spot and tried to chase the buffalo towards the forest, meanwhile, it tried to attack them which forced our forest personnel to shoot, in order to save their lives.
Controlling Monkey Menace
K K Sharma
Over the past few decades there has been a steady and steep increase in the population of Rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) commonly known as monkey. The population of monkeys has grown at an alarming rate during the last decade. According to the last count there were 50 million monkeys in India which has resulted in their migration from the forest areas towards towns and cities and also to the cultivated areas. There is no centralised data bank on monkey raids in the country. According to the official and media reports, 20 States/UTs have reported significant crop damages due to monkey attacks. In 2018, about 250 villages in Jammu reported loss of farm produce worth Rs. 33 crore because of invasion by wild monkeys.