Nepalmountainnews Report | 2 Jul 2008
The tiger population in the Shuklapath Wildlife Reserve has gone down sharply giving much speculation whether poachers engaged in hunting the subtle big cats in Indian wildlife reserves have now made their temporary habitant here to boost their activities.
According to census report conducted of late by the government number of other rare animals like rhinoceros, crocodile, blue sheep and Arna( wild buffalo has also been reduced in the wildlife.
This has left conservationists and rare animal lover in upset fearing that if this trend continues then anyone may push to see such extinct creature in zoos and wall portrait.
According to report made public on tiger population by department of National Parks and Wildlife Reserve, illegal poaching was the root cause for the extinct creature decline, reports Kantipur.
Recent census conducted here showed that there are anywhere between 6 to 14 tigers in the reserve, whereas only two years ago it was estimated that there are anywhere between 10 to 17 tigers in the reserve.
According to a wildlife experts who were involved in the census, they clicked photos of only five tigers by placing 'camera trappings', a digital camera device that automatically snaps photo of animals in the wild, at 12 different places inside the reserve and showed that there were cubs, adult and old tigers only in fourteen in numbers, the wildlife expert said.
"We think that poachers who were active in wildlife reserves in India have entered Nepal after driving the tiger population there to extinction," quoted Nepal News as Dr Annapurnananda Das, director of Department of National Parks and Wildlife Reserve as saying while addressing a press conference organized to make the report on tiger population public, adding, "This is a very serious situation."
It may be recalled that some time back a poacher had been caught with tiger bones in his possession inside the Shuklapantha reserve.
"As the security posts haven't been reinstated in the wildlife reserve even after the cessation of conflict in the country and due to easy availability of weapons, dearth of conservationists and other problems, there has been increase in poaching of endangered animals like tigers," Das said
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