Hi, BNHS is having a camp at Ultapani in March.We all pray for the safety of the wwf volunteers, Alka Vaidya
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Isaac Kehimkar <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > Dear Friends, > > Here's a sad news from Ultapani - one of the best places for butterflies. > > Isaac > > > Six WWF workers kidnapped in Kokrajhar > > : Kokrajhar, February 07, 2011 > > Six WWF volunteer field workers including three girls were abducted by > unidentified arms militants from Laopani area near Ultapani in Kokrajhar > district bordering Bhutan last evening. Sources said the teams were abducted > by unidentified 20 members armed youths at around 4 pm in Kokrajhar district > while they were on way to the area for the field work. A eight member team > from the WWF are on mission to surveying animal monitoring of rare species > like elephant, tiger since January 21 last in Bodoland area. The groups are > in Kokrajhar since January 19 and are on the field since 21 January and had > already finished the field work at Jamduar, Pepsu among others and they > arrived at Ultapani on January 30 last and have been staying at Ultapani. > The site from where they were taken away is about 8 km east of Ultapani and > around 65 km from Kokrajhar town. > > The six abducted by the militants are identified as Gautam Kishore Sarma, > Pranjal Kumar Saikia, Syed Nushad Zamman, Tarali Goswami and Pallavi > Chakrabarty and Sabarna Goswami. Two others David Smith and Binita Barwati > were not with the group when the incident. > > They were on way towards Guguni river with some members of Ultapani > Biodiversity Conservation Society, a local NGO as guides, when they came > cross the armed group numbering around 20. The group asked the NGO members > to return before taking away the WWF activist, said a senior forest official > in Kokrajhar. > > > > http://www.timesofassam.com/headlines/six-wwf-workers-kidnapped-in-kokrajhar > > > > > > > > > > > > > See my Butterfly Images: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/26689187@N00/ > > * * > > > > > -- Enjoy
