JKCSF demands advisory, rehabilitation amid the rising man-animal conflict cases in Kashmir

Stakeholders need to declare it a crisis and devise a strategy for crisis management: QAYOOM WANI

Stakeholders need to declare it a crisis and devise a strategy for crisis management: QAYOOM WANI

Srinagar June 22:(KNS) Beasts are on prowl now almost everywhere in Kashmir and people in general and stakeholders in particular should not wait and watch to see more feared loss of life and the livestock. Jammu and Kashmir Civil Society Forum raising the alarm, its Chairman Abdul Qayoom Wani here issued a statement expressing concern over the rampaging of beasts onto human habitat causing loss of life and livestock and an unending fear psychosis in the prone areas. Quoting media reports, JKCSF Chairman said that the incidents are anxiously increasing whereas the life of a minor girl was lost when she became the victim of the animal-man conflict in Ompora area of Budgam, just after that a boy was hardly saved from a leopard attack in Gogaldour village of Tangmarg and similar incidents of bear attacks are a new normal in Kashmir now. Notwithstanding the loss of life and property (livestock), the stakeholders need to think on this grim issue seriously and declare it a crisis and as such devise a strategy for managing the emerging crisis which is overlooked by one and all except the victim families. 

JKCSF suggested that one a research-based prevention advisory policy should be devised and second a special rehabilitation policy be brought into vogue for the victims. Referring to the media reports that on Tuesday said about Tangmarg village, Rambairpora incident wherein over two dozen sheep, amounting to an estimate of over 3 lakh rupees, belonging to a poor family, were killed in a leopard attack on the night intervening June 21st and 22nd, Which has rendered Mehraj-ud-Din ,the owner of the sheep hapless for sheep flock was the sole income source of this poor man more so before the forthcoming Eidul Azha, 

JKCSF Chairman, Abdul Qayoom Wani said besides the on ground loss of life these animal man conflicts have developed a fear-psychosis among the people.

After each incident beating about the bushes amounts to mere repentance from all sides, however, every crisis has a management which can minimize the losses and the pain of such loss. A researched based mega advisory on continuous basis will have an impact on people to exercise preventive measures and a rehabilitation policy will compensate the victims to some extent, the statement said. (KNS

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