Again the sighting of a pack of wolves in the Mehsi Tehsil has raised panic among the local residents who were slowly starting to breathe easy after five man eating wolves, responsible for the deaths of eight men, were captured.
Among the villagers who survived the ordeal asserted that within the pack was the sixth and last man eating wolf, believed to be lame. His division, however, distanced himself from the claims. Ecological authority Ajit Pratap Singh.
Bahraich which laid in the northern part of the sub continent became a nesting ground for those six pack wolves as they have been killing people each day since mid July thus making eight lives that of including seven children and injuries of over twenty people. As part of the campaign five of them were captured with help of ‘Operation Bhediya’ while there were captures being made of the sixth wolf.
During the raid four wolves were sighted close to the house of Bjp Bjp Mlc Padamsen Chaudhary in Magla village on the evening of September 18, 2006. The spot is only 5 kilometers from Sisayya Churamani village where max wolf attacks are reported.
In the course of their conversation with PTI, Mr. Chaudhary said that, “The villagers had seen a pack of four wolves in the mango orchard of my farmhouse at around 4 pm. One of them was lame.” “There is a wolf den located near this place. Due to monsoons and the increasing level of the rivers, the wild life comes out many times,” he said further.
Nevertheless, DFO Singh said that new pack seems not to have the man-eater wolf and stressed that attempts to capture them should likewise be avoided.
“.. Reports have been coming in that wolves have been sighted in the forests of Ramgaon near Mehsi tehsil. But, it will be very risky to attempt catching them until it is established that the man-eater was not one of them, for they may commence biting people, Singh stated.
Mr. Singh however said that an officer sent to the spot managed to observe pugmarks with that being the impression of wolves. But based on their behavior, he explained, it does not appear that the man-eater was in that group of animals.
“Currently, we are watching the area that was occupied by the wolves that were spotted on Wednesday. It is only after an investigation that we can say with certainty what type of wolves these were,” he said.
Meanwhile, after catching five wolves using cages and diversion methods, the foresters have moved on to ‘wolf howling’ – luring the remaining man-eater female with amplifier sounds of wolf sounds pre-recorded.
