Arunachal Pradesh to get Uncommon Tiger Security Drive

 

By yugasini, 29th Sep 2012 |

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ITANAGAR: Arunachal Pradesh will soon enlist 112 staff to raise a community of Extraordinary Tiger Assurance Compel (STPF) to ensure the huge cats from being poached, boss priest Nabam Tuki illuminated here on Friday.

“The STPF team can be organized at Pakke Tiger Save in East Kameng region and every last trace of the use-both repeating and non-repeating-for raising the association will be borne by the National Tiger Protection Power (NTCA),” Tuki educated the gathering at the same time as a dialogue on the Arunachal Pradesh Backwoods and Uncommon Tiger Security Compels Bill 2012.

The STPF ensemble, to be raised on the lines of the India Hold Unit (IRBn), could involve 90 uncommon tiger watches, 18 foresters, a few backwoods run officers and a few police sub-investigators headed by one partner conservator of backwoods or collaborator commandant in addition different official staff.

Tuki, who in addition keeps the earth and backwoods portfolio, presented the bill in the gathering on Thursday and it was passed by voice votes on Friday.

The boss clergyman promote uncovered that 70 for every penny recruitment for the STPF could be produced from the area while the remaining could be produced from neighbouring regions. He moreover updated that the state legislature could suggest a different STPF group for the Namdapha Tiger Hold in Changlang area.

Arunachal Pradesh has several tiger saves blanket a region of 9,900 sq km. The state likewise has 40 save woodlands blanket a territory of 40,000 sq km.

Tuki assist advised that the state legislature has as of now made 288 presents under the Timberland Assurance Drive (FPF) for the whole state and the recruitment methodology could begin soon.

The majority of the parts partaking in the examination prescribed agreeing enough power to the assignment constrain to bargain emphatically with violators of natural life laws.

The death of the bill bears hugeness in the wake of the ruthless slaughtering of a tigress at Itanagar Zoo here final Monday by unknown rapscallions.

The timberland division on Wednesday terminated several possibility staff and suspended a woodland watch for abandonment of obligation. The office additionally suspended the keeper-cum-run woodland officer of the zoo, Tilling Takar, Thursday furthermore issuing a showcause acknowledge to Joram Dopum, ex-offico-head of the zoo.

 

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Three days after a Royal Bengal Tigress was killed and hacked to pieces at Itanagar zoo, the Arunachal Pradeshgovernment on Thursday introduced a Bill in the state a

ssembly for protection of the big cats.
The bill would provide scope for constitution and regulation of Arunachal Pradesh Forest Protection Force and Arunachal Pradesh Special Tiger Protection Force, for better protection and security of forests, forest produce, forest infrastructure besides, wildlife inside and outside the forests and tigers and other wild animals in tiger reserves.
Miscreants killed Oni, a third generation young Royal Bengal tigress, in her enclosure on Monday night and left with the flesh without taking the valued teeth, skin and claws, leaving the zoo officials in a dilemma about the motive behind the gruesome act.

The forest department yesterday terminated the services of three contingency staff and suspended one forest guard of Itanagar Zoo for dereliction in duty.

In India, tigers unsafe under govt care too as poachers slaughter female in zoo

 

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Agencies : Itanagar, Tue Sep 25 2012, 17:21 hrs

A tigress was killed and hacked into pieces in her enclosure by poachers at Itanagar zoo, its in-charge Zoram Dopum said today.

The poachers broke in and killed the six-year-old tigress between 8 pm to 10 pm last night taking advantage of the absence of the three guards on duty, he said.

The guards had gone for their dinner and found the hacked tigress carcass in the enclosure.

However, why they went missing at the very time that poachers used

The poachers cut the tigress into pieces but could not take them away as the guards had returned, Dopum said adding the animal was among the six big cats in the zoo.

The postmortem was done today and an FIR was lodged at Itanagar police station.

Investigation was on to nab the culprits, he said adding the forest department was also initiating a separate departmental inquiry into the matter.

Itanagar Zoo, 8 km from the town and established in 1987, is spread over 250 hectares and its display area is approximately 41 hectares.

Along with six big cats, the zoo also housed nearly 200 animal species.

On February 21, 2006, three tigers and a leopard were poisoned inside the zoo by miscreants. One tiger had died, while the other two along with the leopard had survived, zoo authorities said.