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PASIGHAT, 12 Aug:<\/strong> In a bid to revive the rapidly declining wildlife population in East Siang district due to excessive hunting, the residents of Aohali village in Mebo subdivision on Monday declared Aohali a ‘zero hunting village’.<\/p>\n The declaration was made before Mebo ADC Sibo Passing, Idu Mishmi Cultural & Literary Society (IMCLS) president Dr Ista Pulu and its general secretary Ere Linggi.<\/p>\n The villagers pledged to preserve the wild animals and birds by putting a blanket ban on any form of hunting, trapping, etc, in and around the village’sjurisdiction.<\/p>\n Aohali HGB Sunary Umbrey and village secretary Dinesh Mepola initiated the step to stop hunting in the village’s jurisdiction.<\/p>\n The ADC lauded the villagers’ noble initiative towards preserving wildlife, and expressed hope that it would inspire other villages to follow suit.<\/p>\n He observed that “hunting and killing of wild animals is not only bad for the ecological balance, but are also detrimental to the hunters.”<\/p>\n The ADC added that Aohali is the first village in the state that has officially banned hunting.<\/p>\n The IMCLS president said that the Idu Mishmi community of the region has always been friendly with nature and wildlife.<\/p>\n “In our tradition, we treat tigers as our brothers, due to which hunting is minimal among the Idu Mishmis,compared to other tribes,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PASIGHAT, 12 Aug: In a bid to revive the rapidly declining wildlife population in East Siang district due to excessive hunting, the residents of Aohali village in Mebo subdivision on Monday declared Aohali a ‘zero hunting village’. The declaration was made before Mebo ADC Sibo Passing, Idu Mishmi Cultural & Literary Society (IMCLS) president Dr […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-246265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246265","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=246265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}