Three forest workers together with ranger suspended in Odisha’s Similipal over jumbo demise
3 min readBy Express News Service
BARIPADA: Amid backlash over the killing and burial of elephants in Athagarh and Sambalpur forest divisions, the Forest and Environment division has suspended three forest workers together with a ranger for his or her alleged negligence and involvement in withholding details about the animals’ demise in Similipal Tiger Reserve.
Following an investigation, Baripada RCCF and Similipal subject director T Ashok Kumar suspended Jenabil ranger in-charge Shiv Shankar Samal, forester Chandrabhanu Behera and forest guard Binod Kumar Das.
However, the incident that reportedly occurred within the core space of the tiger reserve raises severe considerations about wildlife safety in State’s largest massive cat habitat.
It has been reported that Similipal authorities acquired complaints from forest dwellers of Bakua village concerning the killing and masking up of a pachyderm within the core space by the sphere workers on December 7.
The villagers alleged that a number of the forest workers burnt an elephant and threw the charred stays to a close-by stream to destroy the proof after poachers killed the elephant and eliminated its tusks within the core space inside the Gurandi beat.
Based on the grievance, a crew led by Similipal South deputy director Samrat Gowda was fashioned and search operations have been carried out in all the Jenabil vary on December 8 and 9.
Gowda and his crew, with the assistance of a forest dweller, managed to hint the situation and located a number of small-sized bones from the realm.
As the investigation, prima facie discovered lapses on a part of the forest workers of Jenabil, three workers from the vary have been suspended. “Further investigation into the matter is in progress,” stated Gowda.
He stated the bones collected from the spot have been despatched to the Centre for Wildlife Health at OUAT Bhubaneswar for examination to determine whether or not they have been of the elephant or some other animal.
The incident, in the meantime, has triggered apprehension amongst native wildlife lovers who alleged insufficient safety measures for wildlife within the Tiger Reserve.
They questioned how poachers entered the core space and killed an elephant regardless of the common patrolling being carried out. They additionally demanded that the division should dismiss the workers concerned in hiding the proof.
BARIPADA: Amid backlash over the killing and burial of elephants in Athagarh and Sambalpur forest divisions, the Forest and Environment division has suspended three forest workers together with a ranger for his or her alleged negligence and involvement in withholding details about the animals’ demise in Similipal Tiger Reserve.
Following an investigation, Baripada RCCF and Similipal subject director T Ashok Kumar suspended Jenabil ranger in-charge Shiv Shankar Samal, forester Chandrabhanu Behera and forest guard Binod Kumar Das.
However, the incident that reportedly occurred within the core space of the tiger reserve raises severe considerations about wildlife safety in State’s largest massive cat habitat.
It has been reported that Similipal authorities acquired complaints from forest dwellers of Bakua village concerning the killing and masking up of a pachyderm within the core space by the sphere workers on December 7.
The villagers alleged that a number of the forest workers burnt an elephant and threw the charred stays to a close-by stream to destroy the proof after poachers killed the elephant and eliminated its tusks within the core space inside the Gurandi beat.
Based on the grievance, a crew led by Similipal South deputy director Samrat Gowda was fashioned and search operations have been carried out in all the Jenabil vary on December 8 and 9.
Gowda and his crew, with the assistance of a forest dweller, managed to hint the situation and located a number of small-sized bones from the realm.
As the investigation, prima facie discovered lapses on a part of the forest workers of Jenabil, three workers from the vary have been suspended. “Further investigation into the matter is in progress,” stated Gowda.
He stated the bones collected from the spot have been despatched to the Centre for Wildlife Health at OUAT Bhubaneswar for examination to determine whether or not they have been of the elephant or some other animal.
The incident, in the meantime, has triggered apprehension amongst native wildlife lovers who alleged insufficient safety measures for wildlife within the Tiger Reserve.
They questioned how poachers entered the core space and killed an elephant regardless of the common patrolling being carried out. They additionally demanded that the division should dismiss the workers concerned in hiding the proof.
