Hyderabad: Sarpanches in Telangana state are authorised to engage shooters from a list of 30 empanelled hunters to cull wild boars destroying crops in their village limits.
However, the expensive hunting safaris some of the hunters embark on is likely to come undone.
A group from among the 30 listed hunters, on Thursday, submitted a representation to the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, and Chief Wildlife Warden R. Shobha declaring that they would hunt the wild boar for free.
This group, according to a news release from the forest department, has informed the PCCF that “it had come to their notice that some shooters were demanding money for shooting wild boars. We are willing to take part in the culling, spending our own money and on a voluntary basis”.
In a signed letter to the PCCF, this group said where possible, they will take up culling within 48 hours of a request from a sarpanch. They informed the department that they “were not party to the…