WILD ANIMALS KILL HUGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN KERALA
According to government reports as on February 1923, 637 people were killed by wild animals in Kerala during the past five years. As per another report of December 2023, 293 people were killed by tigers and 2657 by elephants in India during the preceding five years. Generally tigers attack human when they are injured or become old. When they are incapable of picking natural animals as prey they look for the easy game, human.
As per natural reasons all life forms on earth are interlinked with each other. Animals, especially the carnivorous are dependent on other animals for survival. Here in Kerala man encroaching into the natural habitat of wild animals. Many even destroy the natural food and water sources of the poor wild beasts.
The concerned departments of the state appears to have admitted the attacks of wild animals on to human as routine thing. Animals like elephants, tigers, leopards etc intrude into thickly populated villages have become a day to day affair now. A couple of days ago a wild elephant killed a young man near to his house. If these animals have adequate food and water they would not have entered into human inhabited area. It is not known whether the forest department has any scheme to ensure the food, water and the well being for the wild animals.
It is equally important to arrange ways and means to prevent the wild animals from entering into humanly populated areas. Sufficient length of thick concrete walls, electrified fencing, deep and wide trenches etc can prevent the animals from leaving the prescribed forest regions. The top ten countries in the world for wildlife conservation area are: Botswana, Namibia, Tanzania, Bhutan, Zimbabwe, Norway, Central African Republic, Canada , Zambia and Rwanda. If necessary we can bring some officials and senior workers from some of these countries and deploy in our forests for a given period of time. Whatever we may do we must strictly ensure that another human life is not lost by wild animals in Kerala.
K V George
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