{"id":146698,"date":"2020-12-30T01:13:50","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T19:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=146698"},"modified":"2020-12-30T01:13:50","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T19:43:50","slug":"forest-officials-seize-wildlife-carcasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/12\/30\/forest-officials-seize-wildlife-carcasses\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest officials seize wildlife carcasses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Correspondent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>DAPORIJO, 29 Dec:<\/strong> A patrolling team of the Daporijo forest division in Upper Subansiri district conducted an operation against hunting and selling of wildlife meat in Daporijo town market, and seized a number of wild animals&#8217; carcasses on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Daporijo Divisional Forest Officer (T) Boken Pao informed that, during the operation in the market at around 2 pm, the patrolling team seized wildlife carcasses, including that of a large Indian civet, a hog deer, two flying squirrels and two jungle fowls. The team, however, could not nab the wildlife trader, who fled from the spot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The forest officials later burned the carcasses at the marketplace in the presence of the people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">DFO Pao was accompanied by Taliha Range RFO Tapa Muso, Daporijo RFO Tajit Ebiya and other forest personnel during the operation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The forest officials sat in a meeting with Upper Subansiri DC Kento Danggen regarding unabated hunting and selling of wildlife meat by the local people,&#8221; said the DFO.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sources said that a section of high-profile people of the district is indirectly encouraging wildlife poachers to carry out illegal practices for consumption of meat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, the forest officials of the Daporijo division have taken steps to stop hunting and poaching of wildlife in the area. They also moved the DC to issue a circular in this regard, and to help the department in organizing mass mobilization on wildlife conservation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Correspondent DAPORIJO, 29 Dec: A patrolling team of the Daporijo forest division in Upper Subansiri district conducted an operation against hunting and selling of wildlife meat in Daporijo town market, and seized a number of wild animals&#8217; carcasses on Tuesday. Daporijo Divisional Forest Officer (T) Boken Pao informed that, during the operation in the market [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-146698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}