Wildlife Rescue Operation
Operation carried out by the team of officials’
from Forest Directorate, engaged in the implementation of ICZM Project, West Bengal
Ecology
will lose its balance if the variety and volume of wildlife is destroyed. We
all know it. But, unfortunately human activities do play an important role in extinction
of wildlife varieties from the face of earth. Poaching is the deadliest crime committed
against wildlife by humankind. Thus, any conservation initiative should have
measures to regulate and stop illegal hunting of wild animals.
Forest
Directorate, West Bengal has taken up anti-poaching measures in coastal areas
of East Midnapore under ICZM Project West Bengal.
One anti-poaching
van is purchased by Directorate of Forest, West Bengal under ICZM Project West Bengal.
Forest officers from different ranges are utilizing the van for carrying out
wildlife rescue the operations in Purba Medinipur.
|
Name
of rescued animal
|
Conservation
status
by
IUCN
|
Found/caught
at -Forest Range
|
Rehabilitated/
released
at
- Forest Range
|
Rescued
Zone - Forest Range
|
|
Olive Ridley Turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea)
|
Endangered-National
|
Bhadua village, Marichda, Purba
Medinipur
|
Shankarpur rehabilitation centre,
Purba Medinipur
|
Bajkul and Contai
|
|
Gangetic dolphin (Platanista gangetica)
|
Bhagwanpur, Purba Medinipur
|
Rupnarayan river, Kolaghat
|
Bajkul
|
|
|
Russell’s viper (Daboia russelii)
|
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|
Tamlik, Purba Medinipur
|
Lodhashuli jungle, Paschim Medinipur
|
Tamluk
|
|
Lesser adjacent stork (Leptoptilos javanicus)
|
|
Hatiberia, Haldia, Purba Medinipur
|
Jhargram, Paschim Medinipur
|
Haldia
|
|
Monkey
|
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|
Panshkura, Purba Medinipur
|
Lodhashuli jungle, Paschim Medinipur
|
Panshkura
|
|
Fishing Cat (Prionailurus viverrinus)
|
Endangered (IUCN 3.1) |
Khejuri, Purba Medinipur
|
Kadirabadchar mangrove, Purba
Medinipur
|
Bajkul
|
|
Brydes Whale (Balaenoptera brydei)
|
Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)
|
Digha Mohana
|
Skeleton will be preserved by
Zoological
Survey of India
|
Tamluk
|
