Sariska’s ‘missing’ tigers have started off a flurry of activity and debate. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh set up a Tiger Task Force; Rajasthan’s chief wildlife warden was suspended, and the Ministry of Environment and Forests (moef) has begun contemplating a Wildlife Crime Bureau. Justifiably, conservationists are up in arms; Sariska represents the dismal state wildlife conservation in India is in.
Why don’t the co-inhabitants of forest areas, forest dwelling communities in and around protected areas facing similar life-threatening situations across the country, fail to provoke such activity? They only manage to provoke a great deal of opposition whenever what is rightly theirs
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/unsettling
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/manshi-asher-ashish-kothari
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/down-earth
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/forest-villages
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/wildlife
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/national-parks
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/sariska-np
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/sanctuaries
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/legislation
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/india
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/orissa
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rajasthan
