Carcass of blackbucks found in Koppal
Team Udayavani, Oct 8, 2018, 11:59 AM IST
Koppal: Around seven blackbucks were found dead in a short span of over 10 days in Koppal district.
However, the exact cause is yet to be ascertained the forest department suspect it to be due to lighting.
Yashpal Kshirasagar, DCF, said last month the forest department had recovered the carcass of five blackbucks (two male and three female) from Alwandi village. “We suspect that the animals could have died because of lightning. There were burn marks too. The bodies were highly decomposed and after the post-mortems, samples were sent to the forensic experts. We are expecting reports in a day or two,” he said.
However, environmental and wildlife activists suspect the reason to be something else. The activists and photographers of these areas said that In the recent years, wolf population has decreased in several places of Koppal. Due to which the deer and black buck population has increased. They claimed that, either the reason to be due to pesticides sprayed by the farmers or due to deliberate poisoning.
They demanded the department to maintain a close watch of these areas and also to investigate the cause of death and take suitable measures to prevent such instances in the future.
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