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Meet to discuss tiger poaching

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI Feb. 11. With frequent reports of poaching of tigers coming in from different parts of the country, the Union Environment Ministry has proposed to hold a meeting with leading environmental NGOs and members of the Parliamentary Consultative Committee attached to the Ministry to devise measures to tighten the anti-poaching mechanism.

A recent case that has created a stir in the environmental circles is the alleged poaching of the tiger that was sighted by the former United States President, Bill Clinton, when he went to Ranthambore wildlife sanctuary in Rajasthan during his visit three years ago.

Called Bhambu Ram, as it was sighted next to a bamboo shrub, the tiger has not been seen for some time now. There is a suspicion that it might have been one of the tigers whose skin was seized in Delhi some months ago.

The decision to hold the meeting was taken at a meeting of the Parliamentary Consultative Committee here on Monday. Though the agenda at the meeting was to deliberate on the Joint Forest Management (JFM) scheme, the discussions veered round to the problem of poaching of tigers after the Congress MP from Rajasthan, Abrar Ahmed, raised the issue of Bhambu Ram.

Responding to the discussion, the Union Environment Minister, T.R.Baalu, announced that a meeting would be soon held with the participation of the members of the panel and leading NGOs working in the area of wildlife.

The meet would review the mechanism available now to tackle the problem and look at the possibilities for further tightening it.

Mr. Baalu said that he would soon take up with the State Governments the need to make the JFM scheme, under which degraded forests are being regenerated through a system of joint management with the active involvement of villages adjoining them, more viable.

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