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Odisha losing its leopards to random poaching
10 Apr 2022 Odisha’s
Special Task Force (STF) and Forest department have together seized
closed to 45 leopard skins in past two years. It indicates that 5% of
the State’s leopard population has already been poached. The analysis
of poaching cases reveals that the killings of big cats is taking place
not only at the instance of organised crime networks, but majorly due
to random hunting.
Ever since the STF of State Crime Branch
has been assigned to go after wildlife offenders, the number of
detection of poaching cases has gone up.
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