Status Quo Over Sonai Rupai Firing Range
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First published in Sanctuary Asia,
Vol. 31
No. 6,
June 2011
“This is a setback to us as we wanted to dismantle the firing range. It is against the wildlife laws to have a firing range in a wildlife sanctuary," the state chief wildlife warden, Suresh Chand, told this correspondent today. The state forest department had tried to dismantle the firing range in April this year but was prevented by the forces from doing so.
The Telegraph had published three stories in its various editions on the stalemate.
The ministry had taken up the issue after it received representations from various quarters, including the members of the Standing Committee of the National Board for Wildlife, on the construction and use of the firing range behind the Lama camp inside the sanctuary. Read the full report here.
Source: Roopak Goswami, The Telegraph, Guwahati.
