Minister seeks report on the deaths of tigers in the last five-and-a-half years in Karnataka

On Tuesday, the Minister of Environmental Eshwar Khandre directed the forest department officials to present a report on the deaths of the tigers in the state in the last five and a half years.

He expressed a shock on the media reports, claiming that 82 tigers were killed in the state in the last five and a half years and sought a report to be presented within 10 days.

Mr. Khandre instructed the additional secretary of the forest, ecology and environmental department and the head wildlife guards. Avoid the death of these 82 Kaplan searched for details about natural reasons and how many tigers died for unnatural reasons.

The Minister also sought details about the status of investigation and investigation reports on these deaths.

The Minister said, mi Was any of the dead tigers such as nails and teeth removed? If the tigers were killed, the action was taken against the neglected personnel and authorities? How many defendants were arrested and punished in case of murders?

Leopard was killed on the hills of MM

Mr. Khandre also ordered an investigation into the allegation that a leopard was killed on the Ramapur-Martali border of the Kaudalli region. “A few days before the alleged poisoning of five tigers in Hoogyam on the hills of MM, a leopard was killed on the Ramapur-Martian border of the Kaudalli Region.

“If it is true that the leopard’s limbs were cut, he was instructed to present a report within seven days with the proposals of action against the guilty civil servants and personnel,” he added.