raipur raising serious concern over protection of wildlife a dog squad team from kanha forest reserve that was brought to chhattisgarhs kawardha forest to probe into a bisons death forest department team recovered remains of tiger monkey pangolin and sloth bear from a house of villager six persons were also arrested in relation to possessing the animal remains and others found cooking sambar deers meata probe was ordered in the case and detailed reports were sought by senior forest officials the lohara forest of sahaspur falls on the boundaries of bhoramdeo tiger reserveaccording to kawardha divisional forest officer prabhat mishra a bison had died of electrocution in the fields when our inspection team spotted few people cooking meat in the forest seeing the officials the people fled the spot but it was shocking to find out that they were cooking sambar deers meat for consumption suspecting further crime i had asked neighbouring kanha forest reserve for requirement of sniffer dog when the dog squad entered into houses of more such offendersthe team found more quantity of sambars meat that was distributed among villagers and from one house the team recovered nails and skin of tiger sloth bear skull of monkey bones of pangolin and remains of wild pig the absconded people were later arrested the official saidmishra added that during interrogation it was found out that besides consumption of meat they killed animals for black magic purpose which was a violation of wildlife act he however denied chances of poaching in the regionaccording to information the alleged accused had killed sambar deer with axe and most of the meat was already consumed the remains were seized and would be sent to labs in hyderabad or dehradunraising concern over increasing poaching amk bharos president of chhattisgarh wildlife society said wildlife from kanhaforest migrate towards states bhoramdeoand achanakmar forests which becomes a belt for continuous movement of wild animals this is being exploited by poachers mainly for trading purpose which has become prominent in forests of chhattisgarh moreover people have started relishing over wildlife and are fond of eating meat of tiger bear monkey cheetal sambar deerforest department needs to intensify patrolling inside forests on regular basis else there would be no forests and no wildlife in coming years as per my study theres a need of more recruitment of staff that needs to be well equipped and should be awarded for their performance to encourage them bharos saidanother activist nitin singhvi said that bhoaramdeo sanctuary was part of kanhapark in 2001 and it remained neglected since formation of chhattisgarh had the orders of hc been obeyed situation wouldnt have turned out to be thisearlier also there have been reports of tigers killed in 2010 and 2011 while chhattisgarh high court had in 2012 asked forest department that there should be requisite deployment of beat guards to monitor movement of tigers in sanctuary considering that the management of tiger reserve was of critical importance in india in 2014 pictures of large quantity