In the meeting of citizens at Guwahati Press Club in Assam serious fears were expressed at increase the trend of killing and poaching of wildlife in several parts of Assam, India’s state. The meeting on 30 December 2011, forest department of Assam government is alarming by this meeting for wildlife. Another target of this meeting is Assam’s public relation the wing to the fight against superstitions linking several wildlife parts.
National park in India is main tourists spot in India. Attended the meeting by numbers of environment and wildlife activists, meeting also the appealed to Assam and central governments to the enlighten police departments on the wildlife issues as well.
Several wildlife and environment speakers raised the voice against the poaching and killing of tiger in the state. India’s national animal of the tiger and its half population of the world lived in India, says any serves of India on the tiger and wildlife population.
Recently, one tiger was killed by many villagers in the Goreswar of the central Assam and its flesh eaten many people took away from the jungle. Although tiger flesh is not accepted as staple food in the Assamese society. In the December’s first week close to Kaziranga national park in the Assam happen a tragic event, there is one full grown tigress was killed by Police staff of the Assam. It tigress dead by 14 shots from 2 AK-47 rifles operated by the Assam police, when this metre is highlight in the court then police staff two villagers of the Bschsgaon village show as a criminal. Fortunately, this event opened in original structure other police Battalion. Forest and Environment Minister of Assam Rockybul Hussain has ordered quickly inquiry into the event.
According to the India’s census of tigers in the January 2008, 1,411 tigers were alive in India but in the 1997 tigers were 3,508. In the early eighties, population of tigers of India was counted about 30,000. Of course there is god news for wildlife and tigers lovers in India population of tigers are increasing up to the 1,875 added by department of tiger’s census 2011. Assam and Kanha national park has taken pride because this state is habitat of about 15% tigers of the India’s total tiger numbers. There has raised more than 100 tiger population.
Unfortunately, Assam knows a major State of India, where tiger poaching and killing is going on to the many years. Other States of Indian which observe the rampant killing and poaching of highly endangered species of wildlife include Rajasthan, Bihar, West Bengal, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Kerala.
Tigers and other Indian wildlife are being frequently poached and killed for use in the some traditional medicine of the Chinese. One more reason many times superstition among different sections in our society instigates killing of wildlife. Hence awareness of the public is the need for saving endangered species of wildlife such as tiger, elephant, leopard and deer.
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