Innovative techniques to capture "killer" wolf part of Operation Bhediya: Bahraich DFO
Sep 19, 2024
Bahraich (Uttar Pradesh) [India], September 19 : Bahraich Divisional Forest Officers (DFO) on Thursday informed that new and innovative methods are used to capture the last "killer" wolf as part of 'Operation Bhediya'.
DFO of Bahraich, Ajit Singh, while speaking to ANI detailed various methods to bring out the last wolf from hiding, including placing stool and urine samples of wolves, and playing sounds of female wolves through a speaker. Notably, the wolf pack was responsible for nine deaths and 50 injuries since July
"We are using new techniques. We are placing samples of stool and urine of the wolf, we have also put up sound system that plays the sound of a female wolf. We are trying all of this so that if it is somewhere nearby, it comes out. But if it is not nearby, the experiment will fail. Where we have used these new techniques, there itself we have installed a system to capture the wolf," said the DFO.
Singh has also said that although the water has receded, the whole area is still not dry, with the wolf still going around and searching for a place and a partner.
"The place he was staying at, the water has pooled around the area, even if the area is drying up, the ground is still soft, its (wolf's) paws will still sink in. So it is going around the area somewhere and also looking for a partner. Both the place of the incident and the place where the wolf was staying was filled with water, so it might be roaming somewhere," the DFO added.
The Uttar Pradesh Forest Department had initiated "Operation Bhediya" to apprehend the pack of wolves responsible for recent attacks in 25-30 villages under Mahsi tehsil in the Bahraich range of Bahraich Forest Division.
The Forest department had captured the fifth 'killer' wolf on September 10.
On Tuesday, An 11-year-old boy was allegedly attacked by a wolf in Mohan Pipri village of Bahraich in the early hours of the morning. According to the family, at about 2 am in the morning while the family were asleep on the roof of their home a wolf attacked Mohammad Umar's son Imran Ali.
The Forest Department in Bahraich had installed snap cameras at most of the probable habitats of wolves in the area to monitor any movement by them, which would also help the forest department to learn about the movement of the wolves in order to catch them.
