dehradun after several cases of attacks by wild animals over the years the forest department in uttarakhand is finally ready with a blueprint of the humanwildlife conflict mitigation action plan it will help check the rising cases of humanwildlife conflict and related deaths an official at the forest department said on thursday the issue was raised by chief minister pushkar singh dhami in the 22nd state wildlife board meeting in june this year after which the state authorities swung into actionthis year alone the state has lost 33 human lives to such conflicts and 93 people have been critically injured most of the attacks are by leopards injuries caused by bear attacks are also on the rise in the hills so far around 1000 people have died and 4900 critically hurtfor wildlife as many as 1560 leopards 167 tigers 478 elephants have succumbed to various reasons including humanwildlife conflict since 2001 officials in the department stated that about 410 permissions were granted for either trapping or tranquilising leopards followed by 23 such permissions for tigers and nine for elephants since 2001 out of which few were shot dead by the hunterssharing some key aspects of the blueprint samir sinha chief wildlife warden said the response to tackle humanwildlife conflict should be immediate and appropriate the cm wanted us to make a state action plan for mitigating the conflicts so we have come up with it on priority this plan is speciesspecific and districtspecific as uttarakhand has a versatile landscape when it comes to flora and faunathe state action plan also has a role for everyone it involves multistakeholders and multiagencies sinha said