Number of Monkeys and Langurs Down by 26% in Seven Years, Says WII Report

Regardless of a majority of farmers complaining and even leaving farming owing to the rising monkey menace in hills, there’s a substantial lower within the variety of macaques and langurs (black-faced monkeys).

A report ready by the Dehradun-based Wildlife Institute of India (WII) exhibits that general there’s a 26 per cent drop within the quantity in comparison with that launched in 2015. Breakup sensible a complete of 1,10,481 macaques had been reported within the state whereas this quantity was 1,46,423 within the 2015 estimation.

This implies the monkey inhabitants alone has dropped by 25 per cent within the hill state. Equally, 37,735 langurs had been reported within the current estimation whereas there have been 54,804 langurs throughout the 2015 rely. This involves a virtually 31 per cent drop within the variety of langurs.

The report additional states that the very best variety of 6,857 macaques had been recorded from the Haridwar forest division adopted by Bageshwar, Dehradun, Tehri divisions. In distinction, the very best variety of 3,219 langurs had been recorded within the Corbett-Ramnagar space adopted by Badrinath, Corbett-Kalagarh space, and Kedarnath divisions.

Chief wildlife warden Parag Madhukar Dhakate mentioned the estimated numbers of macaques and langurs will assist in framing a long-term technique to verify the man-monkey battle.

“The lower in numbers is owing to the sterilisation that the forest division has been finishing up in its two amenities,” Dhakate mentioned to News18. He claimed round 46,000 sterilisations have been carried out. Although an impartial professional aware of the method mentioned in any other case.

These concerned in farming additionally doubt the estimated numbers. Ratan Aswal, a farmer and highlander, mentioned the numbers appeared completely different from actuality. Aswal mentioned many farmers had been preferring to go away agricultural work as a result of monkey menace and it was getting worse. “Then how come numbers have come down? What was the methodology?” he requested.

The forest division confirmed that 1,780 forest workers members had been concerned in counting macaques and langurs throughout 31 forest divisions in Uttarakhand throughout December 2021. The counting was carried out with technical help from WII.

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