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| Protect the wild life of Chanchlo Devi Forest | | | Shiv Kumar Padha
News about the kill
ing of one stag
(Bara Singa) in the jungle adjacent to town Basohli spread like wild fire in and around the town on 22/11/15. A huge crowd of adults and children from the nearby villages thronged the spot to see how does a stag actually looks like because majority of the people have not seen the species of stag except in the books or live in the television channels and not in their natural setting. Every one present there felt sad on losing an animal likely to become extinct in the years to come. As told by elders, present there, the animal was definitely killed by one of the leopards present in the jungle. It is not the single incidence of killing of the wild animals in the jungles, many such incidences have taken place in the past and have been reported to the wild life department through letters and the print media. But as the ill luck would have it the wild life department always turned a deaf ears towards reports. Few months back the district wild life warden was approached to create a wild life sanctuary in the jungles where a little number of the remaining wild animals could be protected and show cased for the public and the children. Before any more harm is rendered to the wild animals, by the human beings or by any carnivorous the wild life department should wake up from the deep slumber and protect the wild life of the jungle by creating a wild life sanctuary and providing them natural hide out and fodder needed for the sustenance of their lives there. I take it my moral duty to apprise one and all regarding the importance of the jungles and the wild life living there.
The nature has been kind enough to the life on the planet by providing it with a canopy of ozone layer and veil of the forests for the sustenance of life on it. Like other factors, the jungles contribute a lot in deciding the environment of the planet, eliminating the possibilities of erosions and landslides, checking the fury of floods, increasing the water table underneath, enhancing the possibilities of rainfall and flora and fauna on the earth. With this reason the forests/jungles are called the lungs of the living organisms on earth, green gold of a country, shelter and go down of food for the wild life. The existence of the wild animals is in perilous state because the species which are occasionally seen here and there will totally become extinct in the times to come due to the mercilessly cutting of the forests for timber and fire wood resulting into gradual thinning of the forests. There is a jungle near Basohli town which is grown on the top of the seven kilometer long ridge of the hill surrounding the old fort temple of Chanchlo Devi. There is a thick and dense forest with the trees like Emblica officinalic (amla), billav, dalbergia sisoo (sheesham), Kachnar, Kainth (Pyrus Pashia ), Grewia Optiva (Dhamman), Cassia fistula (amaltas), cedrela tuna (tunu) , Eugenia cuspidate (jamun), Bakain (draike), Murraya koinigli (curry patta, Gandla), Terminalia (Arjun) Acacia catechu (khair), buck thorns, Celtis australis (khadak ) and grooves of bamboo trees and other fodder yielding trees in abundance. The forest provides shelter and place for camouflaging to the wild animals living there.
There was a time when antelopes, pigs, stags (Bara Singa), leopards, Sambers porcupines, peacocks, fowls, parakeets and Quails were the main habitants of the forest. The whole jungle around the fort once used to echo with the Cawing of peacocks and crowing of the fowls but it is shocking that in spite of big army of forest protection force, forest guards and other allied staff, the trees from the forest are being chopped mercilessly under the nose of the local authorities which is consequently affecting the wild life and the ecology of the area badly. The forest has become too thin to provide shelter even to the smallest animals living in it. The cattle from villages and of the nomads keep grazing unchecked in the forests which eat away the grass needed for sustaining the wild life.
Nature rears and nurtures the forests equally both for the human beings and animal world. Where on the one hand forests provide green cover to the earth, help contain the pollution and regulate the natural phenomena while on the other it provides food and shelter to the wild life in the natural setting. The species of wild life which we see today are at the brink of extinction. Therefore it becomes the moral duty of the government and the agencies active in the field of wild life to save these species for future generation and also for maintaining the ecological balance by declaring the whole jungle an eco-sensitive area. Chanchlo Mata jungle is an idle place for establishing wild life sanctuary which will help save and protect the wild life in it and give boost to the forest/jungle tourism, adding a new chapter in the tourism history. It is pertinent to mention here that recently a wide space has been enclosed in the jungle by the social forestry department and thousands saplings of the cheel, kachnar, sheesham, fodder yielding and decorative trees have been planted in the jungle by the local forest department which can help protect the wild life of the jungle in the long run. It will therefore be in the interest of forest department to establish one wild life sanctuary in the said jungle and protect the few remaining wild animals from extinction. Also the local subordinate staff be directed not to mint money by selling the natural wealth for their petty benefits in future. Such wild life sanctuary will definitely add one more feather in the cap of forest department.
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