Blade wire fencing, blackbuck death trap, banned in Fatehabad
Sushil Manav
Tribune News Service
Fatehabad, January 8
The Fatehabad district authorities have banned blade wire fencing around fields that acts as a death trap for unsuspecting blackbucks. It is not the first time the ban has been imposed, but the orders have not been implemented on ground.
Fatehabad Deputy Commissioner NK Solanki yesterday presided over a meeting of officials from the Wildlife, Animal Husbandry and Panchayat and Development department to discuss the issue. District Revenue Officer Ram Singh Bishnoi and animal rights activists from Paryavaran and Jeev Raksha Bishnoi Sabha and People for Animals (PFA) were also present in the meeting.
The meeting was organised after animal rights activists met Solanki at a darbar earlier this month at Badopal village near where the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) has acquired land for its residential colony. They expressed resentment over official apathy at the death of blackbucks due to attacks by stray dogs and other reasons.
After the deliberations, the DC announced no farmer would be allowed to set up blade wire fencing that caused the death of animals such as blackbucks and bluebulls that get trapped in the fencing while fleeing wild dogs or poachers. Prohibitory orders have been promulgated to impose the ban.
The DC also said stray dogs that chased blackbucks would be caught and sterilised and the animals’ graveyard would be shifted from Bishnoi-dominated villages of Badopal, Dhagar, Kajalheri and Chinder as dogs feasting on animal carcasses turned carnivorous.
Vinod Karwasara, a spokesperson of the animal rights activists, said the measures would save blackbucks from the slow, but certain extinction.
