Big cats barging into the homes or jumbos wreaking havoc in the human vicinity fascinate netizens across social media, but, those who face these animals first hand, do not share the same sentiment. Rather, in the wake of crop and livestock losses to predatory animals, people retaliate causing injury and even death to the endangered and precious fauna.
“Soaring human population, the occupation of and construction on the land around the sanctuaries have created barriers to animal movement making human-animal conflicts a daily affair,” says DrNVK Ashraf, Senior Director and Chief Veterinarian Wildlife Trust of India, WTO.
Terming ‘’retaliatory killings” as the natural response of the local people when they suffer losses and in some cases, deaths, Dr Vinod Mathur, Director Wildlife Institute of India says, “Their reaction is natural to avenge their loss. A prompt process of giving compensation in case of economic losses and providing medical care to the people injured could stop people from taking law into their hands.”
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