Confused to keep wildlife in rescue center shortage

Chaitra 20, 2081

Bhawani Bhatta

Confused to keep wildlife in rescue center shortage

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Locals were shocked when an adult tiger was spotted in the wheat fields of Teduwa, Belauri Municipality-2 on Saturday morning. The team of Shuklaphanta National Park and National Nature Conservation Fund's Shuklaphanta Conservation Program along with security personnel and forest staff were mobilized to control the tiger.

 

All day efforts on Saturday failed to dart the tiger. On Sunday, two elephants of the park were mobilized and taken under control in the afternoon.

The tiger, which has been in the wheat field for two days, was kept in an iron cage and taken to the Division Forest Office in Mahendranagar. By that time it was not decided where to keep the tiger .

'We do not have a rescue center, so there is a problem in keeping the captured or rescued wild animals,' Rambichari Thakur, head of Division Forest Office, Kanchanpur said, 'We will keep them in the forest office at night, necessary measures will be taken after discussion with everyone.' In the Far West, one/two leopards need to be rescued every two/three months. Tigers have been captured every year for the past three years. But due to the lack of a rescue center, there is confusion as to where to send them.

Last July, a woman died when a tiger attacked Dodhara Chandni municipality. The tiger, which took two days to be captured, was sent to the rescue center in Bardia. Two years ago, a tiger that attacked a woman in Belauri municipality was captured and sent to the zoo in Lalitpur. "Because there is no rescue center, there is a problem in keeping wild animals," said Purushottam Wagle, conservation officer of Shuklaphanta National Park, "there is a challenge in managing wild animal rescue." Veterinarian of the park who has been hungry for a few days. Abhash Shrestha said. According to him, he may have come out after being defeated in his area or unable to find food. Now until the management of the place where the tiger is kept, it will be kept in an iron cage and fed.

A rescue center is under construction in Shuklaphanta Park to keep the wild animals that have been captured or rescued. But Lakshmiraj Joshi, Head of Shuklaphanta Conservation Program of National Nature Conservation Fund, says that wild animals cannot be kept only by building physical infrastructure.

"After keeping wild animals, huge expenses are needed for maintenance and food management," said Joshi, "For maintenance, different types of manpower from doctors are also needed." The team of the National Nature Conservation Fund is rescuing leopards and tigers that have come to the slums of the nine districts of Far West and have been caught in traps.

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