MP MOS for Forests admits Panna Crisis

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We all know that Mr.Shukla. No need to beat about the bush…and no need for all

that useless and futile paper work! What is needed is/are concrete measures to

salvage the situation. And setting up of an equally useless investigation agency

will not yield any results except sheer wastage of money, time and energy..when

it could be channelized towards result oriented steps! All this bureaucratic

stuff looks good on paper but not in real life. So wake up from the stupor and

get action-oriented to sustain and re-introduce tigers there in Panna!!!!!!

 

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No tiger found in Panna Tiger Reserve, MP govt admits

PTI 13 July 2009, 04:20pm IST

 

BHOPAL: The Madhya Pradesh government admitted in the State Assembly that no

tiger was found in the Panna Tiger Reserve during a survey conducted

 

 

in this May by the Wildlife Institute of India (WII).

 

This was stated by the Madhya Pradesh minister of state for forest, Rajendra

Shukla in a written reply to a calling attention motion on the issue of

dwindling tiger population in the state moved by Choudhary Rakesh Singh and

others of the Congress.

 

The minister also said that the State government was examining a report

submitted by the Special Investigating Team set up by the Centre which said that

illegal hunting was also among the reasons for the falling tiger population in

Panna.

 

Shukla said that a committee has been set up to look into the matter and suggest

ways and means to ensure that such things do not recur. Its report was expected

soon, he added.

 

He said that the process for re-establishing tigers in the Panna Tiger Reserve

had already begun with the translocation of two tigresses and pointed out that

permission for translocating four more tigers/tigresses had been sought from the

Centre.

 

The Minister said that the State government agreed with the concern expressed by

members and pointed out that all efforts would be made for protection of tigers

and other forest animals.