Govt formulating policy to minimise 'human-animal conflict'
Tuesday, 25 May 2010
The government is finalising a draft policy to compensate the human beings in case of death or injury due to attack of the wild animals, reports BSS.
The Wildlife Advisory Board under the Ministry of Environment and Forests has already given its nod to the draft policy with a provision of Tk 100,000 for the death of a human being and Tk 50,000 for permanent disability of a person from attack of a wild animal.
According to the draft, the compensation would be paid to a person, who either faces death or becomes injured by three categories of wild animals- tiger, elephant and crocodile.
Secretary of the Ministry of Environment and Forests Mihir Kanti Majumder told the news agency that the policy framed under the Bangladesh Wildlife Conservation Act 1974 would help minimise human-animal conflict and conserve rare and endangered species of wild animals.
One of the main objectives of the policy is to protect the endangered wild species, particularly the Royal Bengal Tiger (RBT), elephants and crocodiles in the forest areas of the country, officials said.
Over the last 10 years, 2/3 RBT and 4/5 elephants were killed every year on an average due to human-animal confrontation, said Conservator of the Wildlife and Nature Conservation Circle Tapan Kumar Dey.
He said a legally entrant into the government forests or a government official or employee or any person, if attacked by the wild animals outside the forests, would get the compensation.
The Wildlife Advisory Board under the Ministry of Environment and Forests has already given its nod to the draft policy with a provision of Tk 100,000 for the death of a human being and Tk 50,000 for permanent disability of a person from attack of a wild animal.
According to the draft, the compensation would be paid to a person, who either faces death or becomes injured by three categories of wild animals- tiger, elephant and crocodile.
Secretary of the Ministry of Environment and Forests Mihir Kanti Majumder told the news agency that the policy framed under the Bangladesh Wildlife Conservation Act 1974 would help minimise human-animal conflict and conserve rare and endangered species of wild animals.
One of the main objectives of the policy is to protect the endangered wild species, particularly the Royal Bengal Tiger (RBT), elephants and crocodiles in the forest areas of the country, officials said.
Over the last 10 years, 2/3 RBT and 4/5 elephants were killed every year on an average due to human-animal confrontation, said Conservator of the Wildlife and Nature Conservation Circle Tapan Kumar Dey.
He said a legally entrant into the government forests or a government official or employee or any person, if attacked by the wild animals outside the forests, would get the compensation.