Villagers living in and around tiger reserve Palamu should take a lesson from Nagaland said field director cum chief conservator of tiger reserve M P Singh.
Speaking to his rangers in the Palamu Tiger Foundation meeting M P Singh said ‘ Villagers in Nagaland have augmented their income by doing a simple thing. Earlier these Nagaland people used to kill falcon there. later on they began to save this migratory bird which they show cased to the tourists and soon their income shot up’.
Back here in villages falling in and around tiger reserve the villagers can do the same with lark ( bageri) which is also a migratory bird and comes here from Tibet. Singh said here this bird is killed and smuggled too. This is too bad a practice reiterated Singh. lark falls under schedule 1V in the hierarchy of wild life.
DFO core A K Mishra said in the past three years smugglers with larks were caught with the migratory birds in huge numbers.
Sources said smugglers even net parrot from here and sell it in the big market of Kolkata. In the year 2015 more than 300 parrots were seized which were being smuggled in a big airy brief case, said sources.