In Buxa Tiger Reserve, you can find a village inside the forest within every 5 kms. This human habitat inside the Buxa Tiger Reserve create great opportunities for the timber mafias and the poachers.
Timber mafias and poachers give a little money to the local villagers and use them as a guide to enter the core areas. this increases the Wildlife crime inside the Buxa region rapidly.
The Govt. and the Forest ministry now looking to end or decrease this Wildlife crime by relocate the villagers.
According to the Govt. report there are 13 villages inside the Buxa core region (unofficially the number exceeded 20) with more than thousand people who are living in those villages. Their main source of income is wood cutting, farming and dairy. For their livelihood very often they enters the core areas.
This trespassing inside the core zone makes a uncomfortable environment for the Bengal Tigers to breed. The West Bengal Govt. is criticized not only from the Wildlife NGOs but also from the Central Govt. because for a lot time no Bengal Tiger is seen in the Buxa Tiger region but the Bengal Govt claims that there are at least 6 Bengal tiger lived inside the Buxa Tiger Reserve.
The Govt. want to relocate the villagers outside the the core area beside the 31st National Highway.
Source: Ei Samay
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