SOS for the National Bird fof India: Gujrat SPCA

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dear friends

 

wishing all of you a very happy diwali.

 

i am writing to you this to start a campaign against the curropt

forest officers who are not filing cases against the rich and the

influential offenders but takes no time in filing a case against

poor for the same offence.

 

the matter is keeping our national bird a peacock captive and

rendering it handicapp due to constant tying and caging. this has

resulted in deformity due to captivity and also lack of balanced

diet. than in spite of repeated request in writing not to release

this captive animals, they are directly released in wild by

procuring a health certificate from vet. please take note of these 3

cases and write to ccf wildlife Mr Pradeep Khanna who has been again

and again requested by me personally to take personal interest and n

no of written complaints. his landline no are 079-23254133 fax 079-

23254788 mobile 9427306163. please talk to him personally or

register your revolt by fax as he does not take note of emails.

 

case 1

may 2006 a printing press called snehal printing press on waghodia

road vadodara has been keeping lots of birds in small cages. a poor

boy who went inside saw apart from peigeons, parrots and 2 peacock

in cages. he called me up and i informed the forest department, my

volunteers went with the dept and saw that the the guard threw stone

at one peacock and forced it out of the compound while the ohter one

could not fly and kept sitting in the front garden. this was taken

away by the forest after 3 days after the poor boy was mercilessly

beaten up and we filed a police complain. the forest department has

still not booked the owner under the wildlife protection act. i have

filed repeated complaints even with minister of forest. the forest

department is not ready to take statement of my volunteer or the boy

who has seen the peacocks caged. on top of that the parrots that

were captive since years and the peacock have been released in wild.

another peacock was never found MAN NOT BOOKED AS HE IS VERY RICH

AND INFLUENTIAL

 

case 2

june 2006 a poor slum fellow forgot to cage the peacock and the

peacock flew into someones res.they locked it and called us.we

rescued the peacock again with leg deformities.the owner claimed he

had got the eggs and also has another peacock totally deformed

legs.both the peacocks where kept why? they used to put ghongroo

around the legs and make them dance to music for entertainment. this

was in kishanwadi area of heart of baroda city. the man was arrested

and both the peacocks are at presently with vadodara zoo. MAN GOT

ARRESTED CAUSE HE WAS POOR. we have everything he said on vedio

 

case 3

july 2006 parul institute at wagodia village in vadodara had 5 caged

peacocks. this time we went with 5 national news media.for one and

half hour we were mobbed and police did not turn up.from the gate to

cage is about 7 min walk during which time peacocks released from

the cage but could not go far and remaind in a larger enclosure on

man made tree.finally with help of police we got one peacock.even

after repeated request in writing the man is not arrested and the

remaining 4 peacocks are not found.this peacock also had deformity

in leg and the students clearly tell that they had 8 and they do not

know where the remaining 3 are. the forest dept has been given full

2 hrs cd about the whole episode and proof.all the press media has

also filed a case of assault.onion and garlic were found in the

peacock cages as this is one of the food given to peacocks is also

on cd. MULTIMILLIONER PERSON WITH ALMOST 15 PRIVATE COLLAGES AND

FUNDING FROM ABROAD.NOTHING DONE.the peacock immediately released to

wipe proof of the deformed foot.

 

please also note that its very difficult to catch a peacock from the

wild.also as all of you might be knowing peacocks kept in captivity

will not leave the place and if released would die as they cannot

understand about natural predetors etc.

 

please call up the ccf and pressurise him to take action and find

the remaining peacocks.PLEASE HELP as i do not have enough fund to

fight in court.

 

luv snehal

 

Gujrat SPCA