Villagers kill 2 wolves in Luni after 10 people attacked in 2 days
DCF (wildlife) Ramesh Kumar, confirming the killing of two wolves, said bodies of both animals were taken under possession and sent for postmortem. He added that action will be taken against those who killed the animals, as wolves are a protected species under Schedule I of Wildlife Protection Act 1972.
"Killing a protected animal is a crime," Kumar said, and attributed the violent behaviour of the wolves to mating season and a sense of protection for their pups.
Before this, a wolf was spotted lying dead on a road in the area, believed to have been crushed under some vehicle. Among the people attacked by wolves in the past two days in the area was an old woman.
Slamming the inaction of the forest department, president of Bishnoi Tiger Force, Rampal Bhawad, said that the attacks and the killings of the animals by frightened villagers could have been averted if the forest department had taken timely action.
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"The presence of wolves and their attacks on the villagers had already been reported. But the forest department did not swing into action, as a result of which angry villagers killed two wolves," said Bhawad.
Wolves have been endemic to this region for years, but their population has drastically declined, mostly due to human intervention. A wildlife enthusiast and crusader for saving the effluent-infested Jojari river, Shravan Patel, said that wolves' habitats were destroyed by shepherds by plugging their dens.
"But there was no intervention by the forest department to save them and to spread awareness among villagers," he said.
Another wildlife enthusiast, Kewal Ram Bishnoi, attributed the major loss of the wolf population to the growing mining activities along the Luni river. "The entire river basin has been ravaged by gravel mining. There were many wolves around the Luni river from Gudha to Kankani and the pastureland. Some were killed by shepherds while some were displaced by the extensive mining activities," he said.
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