AR-News: (India) Rehab plan for circus beasts

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TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 01, 2003 01:56:07 AM ]

KOLKATA: Rehabilitation centres for rescued leopards and circus animals. This 
novel venture is a part of the state forest department’s plans for the Forest 
Week beginning November 6. 


To begin with, the state is setting up a rehabilitation centre at Karibari in 
Jalpaiguri.   
The estimated cost for the project is Rs 1 crore.   
“Four rescued leopards, now at the Jaldapara Reserve Forest , will be 
released there. Later, it will accommodate the animals rescued from circus as well,” 
said Vinod Kumar Yadav, conservator and deputy warden, wildlife.   
The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals PETA) has moved the Supreme 
Court against the Empire Circus, complaining that elephants are shackled by 
three legs, horses tied with short ropes and cockatoos confined to cages without 
a perch.   
Most of the leopards have been rescued from the tea gardens. “We have rescued 
as many as 20 leopards from the gardens. They stray into the tea gardens in 
the forest fringes,” Yadav informed.   
An ‘interpretation centre’ is coming up at Lataguri to make people aware of 
the endangered species and the laws governing them. Another eco-tourism centre 
will be inaugurated at the Burirdabri Tiger Reserve in the Sunderbans on 
November 7.   
The department will also run an awareness campaign on what the villagers can 
do to prevent elephants from straying into human settlements. 




It can truly be said:  Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are 
the tormented souls. --Arthur Schopenhauer 
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