Can't help agreeing with Sabyasachi's method of dealing with this!

Jokes apart, the problem is more complex. Over the years since Independence, the Indian Forest Service has become more and more of an administrative service than the enforcement service (on par with the Indian Police Service) it had been originally in the Raj days. The Service itself is responsible for this.

Over the years the Forest Department has become more occupied with silviculture, social forestry, and worse the stupid, destructive fad of 'eco-development' where officers enjoy their babu lifestyles with greater ease as chances of getting their hands dirty with ground level field work are as rare as the chances of fattening their wallets with '10% cuts' from well funded projects are high. What is needed at the moment is for the Indian Forest Service to go back to protection and enforcement and get rid of all social and eco-development nonsense. Just like we protect our political boundaries, our banks, our cities and our VIPs, we need to get back to protecting our nation's life support systems- our wildernesses. Its high time we had a force on the lines of the BSF protecting all our wildernesses. Ideally, the IFS should be phased into one such force. India's life support systems are incalculably more important than her borders and her economy.

Better than scaring away tourists with horror tales of angry tuskers, I'd love to see a Range Officer, proud in his uniform, scaring them away with his lathi.

Cheers,
Aditya