AR-News: (India) No more pigs to be released in Park

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By: _Yogesh  Naik_ (mailto:yogesh at mid-day.com) <S 
<DATE>July 1 
  
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    <STORYTA   All the 50 pigs that were released in the Sanjay  Gandhi 
National Park on Tuesday will now have to be caught. Forest  officials took the 
decision yesterday, fearing that if the panthers  ate the pigs, the predators 
would contract diseases.  

Yesterday at a meeting of forest officials which was  attended by principal 
chief conservator of forests, B K Singh, chief  conservator of forests 
(Wildlife) P P S Yajuvendu, deputy  conservator of the Thane (Wildlife division) 
Sarfaraz Khan and  others at the national park, it was decided not to release any 
more  pigs, after these 50 were caught. 

The officials said that  the pigs would have tapeworms and could be diseased, 
which would  also spread infections, if any, to other animals in the forest.  

full  story:
_http://ww1.mid-day.com/news/city/2004/july/86778.htm_ 
(http://ww1.mid-day.com/news/city/2004/july/86778.htm)  



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