Wild boar meat seized
BY AKSHYA ROUT
JAJPUR,MAY 30 : In a major breakthrough, the forest officials seized 30 kilograms of spotted wild boar ‘s meat at Paikarapur village within Dalijodi forest range in Jajpur district on Monday night.
“We gathered information regarding illegal transporting of wild boar ‘s meat for which while checking the areas we seized 30 kilograms of wild boar ‘s meat packed in a sack from a cycle. But the poacher fled from the spot, leaving behind his cycle and the meat of the animal, said Abhiram Jena, the forest range officer of the Dalijoda.
The poachers often trap the wild boars by spreading nylon ropes in the nearby forest and its nearby areas and kill the animals.
These animals are forced to move into paddy fields in the nearby villages , tempted by grown-up paddy , vegetable crops and dry fish, and poachers kill them, said some locals.
