Originally Posted by
Pawan Jit Singh
Strict Isolation and protection?
From what,The people who want to see the animals thrive?My reason for the comparison was to give an example to see that if people decide to educate themselves a difference can be made.Lets face the facts here as long as people and animals come into conflict the animals lose.I am prohunting definately but only where it is possible.the present is not the time for India to allow hunting particularly where there is no sustainable population of game.The people plunder the forests for grazing,wood,leaves for making beeris,khair trees for katha.Its easy to surmise that isolation and protection is the only answer,how to do plan on educating the man living next to the forest that it is wrong for him to take his cows into the forest or not to gather firewood from it without even thinking of a way for him to be able to get what he needs from somewhere else.My suggestion was to use the people and at the same time provide them with a means of earning where both the animals and the people benefit.Its easy to go into the jungle in a car but howmany of us go to the forests and actually observe the animals going about their lives without disturbing them?how many of us pickup the plastic bags,bottles and god only knows what else?Not too long ago you could not even walk your dog on the street in Dalhousie after dark as the leopards were known to snatch dogs right from peoples hands people started leaving poisoned meat to kill the leopards.I have personaly seen herds of nilgais in Uttar Pradesh miles from any state forests eating wheat without a care in the world.the people were using crude booby traps to kill them and scare them away from the crops,what do you suggest the poor bugger that owned the field do as to him the animals are eating the roti out of his kids mouth?thats the same situation with both Nilgai and wild boar on the India Pakistan border,particularly bad with wild boar there as the people on the other side of the border chase them across the border as the animal is Haram to the muslims.You need to find a way for the people to benefit from the animals,in order for them to want the animals to survive.
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