Maksam Tayeng

PASIGHAT, Mar 28:  The Wildlife Conservation Society-India today provided several field items to the field staffers of the Daying Ering Memorial Wildlife Sanctuary in the presence of Divisional Forest Officer, Tasang Taga, Range Officer, Orin Perme.
WCS-India team led by Uttara Mendiratta, Programme Head Counter Wildlife Trafficking programme and Debasish Sarma, Administrative Manager-North-Eastern India Counter Wildlife Trafficking handed over clothing and utility items for field staffercs and officials at Borguli wildlife range. The items were also given to Eco-Development Committee active field members as a support toward conservation and protection of the sanctuary's rich flora & fauna. The WCS-India team is on a 2 day tour to the sanctuary till Wednesday.
When asked, WCS-India’s Uttara Mendiratta informed that the field kit items distributed to the patrolling staff of the D. Ering WLS are an initiative to support and assist the field staff in carrying out effective field work in order to protect the sanctuary. “D. Ering WLS has a very vital landscape surrounded by different branches of the Siang river and is a beautiful sanctuary. We were not much familiar with the sanctuary, but Millo Tassar, a senior forest officer from Itanagar introduced us about the sanctuary and its requirements after seeing the good work of the sanctuary’s field staffers in his recent visit to the sanctuary. After coming here we came to know the importance of this sanctuary and why the field staff of D. Ering WLS needs our support. We will try to introduce more NGOs to come and support this sanctuary. My husband is also a birding expert and enthusiast and so I will bring him here too”, said Uttara.
Meanwhile, Tasang Taga, DFO, Ering WLS expressed his thankfulness to the team WCS-India for the much needed support and further appealed the NGO to keep on supporting the field staff of this riverine island sanctuary which is the oldest wildlife sanctuary of Arunachal Pradesh with sanctuary proclamation done during 1975, DFO posted since 1976 and final notification done during 1978. “The sanctuary field staff carry out protection work intensively to fully secure its flora and fauna, but inadequate support from the government often paralyses the sanctuary's patrolling team”, said Taga.
Besides lacking in providing basic field kit items to the sanctuary field staff, the POL shortages for patrolling by boats mostly affects the sanctuary normal patrolling work. Unlike other forest and wildlife divisions, D. Ering WLS needs sufficient fuel for patrolling by boat all around the sanctuary, but limited POL is provided to this sanctuary equal to other divisions. In this regard I had repeatedly written to the higher authorities, but no attention has been given to us, resented Taga.  

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