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ITANAGAR, 19 Oct:<\/strong> The environment & forest department has included the word ‘gun’ to its ‘Arunachal Airgun Surrender Abhiyan’ to encourage people to surrender their licensed guns.<\/p>\n Addressing a gathering at the PCCF office here on Tuesday, advisor to the environment & forest minister, Kumsi Sidisow said that urging people to surrender their licensed guns is a new initiative under the campaign to preserve and protect wildlife.<\/p>\n “It is due to the continuing and untiring efforts made by the state government and the department that today people are volunteering to surrender their licensed guns too. I hope that more people will come forward to surrender their guns in the days to come,” he said.<\/p>\n PCCF RK Singh said that the campaign has earned national recognition and many of the states are now emulating the campaign.<\/p>\n “It is very encouraging to know that people of a tribal state, where hunting is an ancestral tradition, are coming forward to surrender airguns and guns for the conservation of wildlife,” he said.<\/p>\n Urging public figures to join the campaign, Deputy Conservator of Forest (Wildlife & Forest and Biodiversity) Millo Tasser informed that the campaign has gained mass participation and till date over 1,473 airguns along with licensed guns and chainsaws have been surrendered.<\/p>\n Earlier in the day, former minister Hari Natung along with Manaki Natung, wife of Environment & Forest Minister Mama Natung, surrendered a Spanish Mauser rifle and an SBBL gun, respectively.<\/p>\n The former minister appealed to the state’s media to “disseminate the importance of wildlife and creating awareness about it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ITANAGAR, 19 Oct: The environment & forest department has included the word ‘gun’ to its ‘Arunachal Airgun Surrender Abhiyan’ to encourage people to surrender their licensed guns. Addressing a gathering at the PCCF office here on Tuesday, advisor to the environment & forest minister, Kumsi Sidisow said that urging people to surrender their licensed guns […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-174610","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\/174610","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=174610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}