I was happy in a way to read the news paper clipping mailed to all of us dedicated to nature conservation. But when it comes to crores and crores of money involved in whatever project - Im afraid more than half is eaten away somewhere in the middle ! Im from West Bengal and I STRONGLY FEEL that until and unless our policy makers are motivated enough to protect our forest and wildlife - we shall be losing not only our flagship species - the Royal Bengal Tiger - but along with it a whole gamut of precious creatues of the forest. Can we really save the Sunderbans tigers ? Peopla have just occupied free land in the midst of the mangrove forest and have destroyed mangrove to start cultivation. These villages are den of poachers and without much effort they are making money by trapping and killing both deer and tigers. We do not have sufficient number of forest guards nor do we have enough speed boats to chase them out. I would therefore plead to the new Forest Minister to look into the matter and perhaps meet us - the non govt. organisation members at a meeting. We need your help and support. Purnima Dutta Quoting M B R Siddiqui <[email protected]>: > > News clipping attached. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "indiantreepix" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
