HYDERABAD: Sharpshooter Nawab Shafath Ali Khan and his team shot lifeless 50 wild boars at Air Force Academy in Dundigal. The operation started on Saturday evening and endured until Sunday. Telangana forest department issued orders allowing Khan “to cull the wild boars, which are allegedly damaging gentle grass and greenery at Air Force Academy and posing a risk to the security of trainees and aircraft”.
Sangareddy District Forest Officer V Venkateswara Rao, who issued orders to cull the wild boars, instructed TOI, “Air Force Academy government submitted a representation on April 11 mentioning that the wild boars are attacking the trainees within the camp and also coming onto the runway posing risk to jet planes. The campus is spread over 1,500 acres and has a thick forest. I have authorised the licensed shooters to hold out culling. We haven’t tried the methods of shooting the wild boar like in Shamshabad global airport.
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Sangareddy District Forest Officer V Venkateswara Rao said the topography of Shamshabad global airport isn't like Dundigal academy, which has dense forest. The population of untamed boars is past keep an eye on on the Academy, which produced proof about risks posed to the trainees.
The DFO order stated: “Permission is accorded to Nawab Shafath Ali Khan for culling of the wild boars, which are spotted within the airfield house and are a potential flight safety danger. The fast increase of untamed boars in airfield is an area of shock as it would result in aircraft twist of fate and damaging gentle grass and greenery of the air force academy.”
The DFO put conditions like wild boars, which are habitually damaging vegetation and the ones which cannot be pushed back to the forests by means of different methods, should be culled. The license shooters shall be held responsible if any untoward incident happens. The culling permission was given until April 30.
Nawab Shafath Ali Khan instructed TOI, “We counted 311wild boars in 5 hours on Saturday within the walls of Air force academy. As there is no predator, their numbers have larger. We recognized 50 huge wild boars that are a potential risk to the aircraft and eradicated them. My team consists of professional trackers and spotlight working men. During the culling, except Air Force Academy officers, two forest guards of Sangareddy forest division accompanied us. It was a extremely a success operation that started at 11pm on Saturday and endured till 3am on Sunday. Later, we dug a pit and buried the carcass below cover of Panchanama and in presence of forest officials. I used .3006 telescopic rifle. I took a head shot to hit the mind as it has least struggling to the animal and reasons immediate loss of life.”
“The academy has been facing the problem for the past 3 years. Wild boars are nocturnal animals and pose risk to aircraft working at nights. I avoided capturing families and young ones and centered best alpha males,” he added.
When contacted Air Force Academy officials refused to comment.
Sangareddy District Forest Officer V Venkateswara Rao, who issued orders to cull the wild boars, instructed TOI, “Air Force Academy government submitted a representation on April 11 mentioning that the wild boars are attacking the trainees within the camp and also coming onto the runway posing risk to jet planes. The campus is spread over 1,500 acres and has a thick forest. I have authorised the licensed shooters to hold out culling. We haven’t tried the methods of shooting the wild boar like in Shamshabad global airport.
Shooter centered best alpha males that pose risk to aircraft at evening
Sangareddy District Forest Officer V Venkateswara Rao said the topography of Shamshabad global airport isn't like Dundigal academy, which has dense forest. The population of untamed boars is past keep an eye on on the Academy, which produced proof about risks posed to the trainees.
The DFO order stated: “Permission is accorded to Nawab Shafath Ali Khan for culling of the wild boars, which are spotted within the airfield house and are a potential flight safety danger. The fast increase of untamed boars in airfield is an area of shock as it would result in aircraft twist of fate and damaging gentle grass and greenery of the air force academy.”
The DFO put conditions like wild boars, which are habitually damaging vegetation and the ones which cannot be pushed back to the forests by means of different methods, should be culled. The license shooters shall be held responsible if any untoward incident happens. The culling permission was given until April 30.
Nawab Shafath Ali Khan instructed TOI, “We counted 311wild boars in 5 hours on Saturday within the walls of Air force academy. As there is no predator, their numbers have larger. We recognized 50 huge wild boars that are a potential risk to the aircraft and eradicated them. My team consists of professional trackers and spotlight working men. During the culling, except Air Force Academy officers, two forest guards of Sangareddy forest division accompanied us. It was a extremely a success operation that started at 11pm on Saturday and endured till 3am on Sunday. Later, we dug a pit and buried the carcass below cover of Panchanama and in presence of forest officials. I used .3006 telescopic rifle. I took a head shot to hit the mind as it has least struggling to the animal and reasons immediate loss of life.”
“The academy has been facing the problem for the past 3 years. Wild boars are nocturnal animals and pose risk to aircraft working at nights. I avoided capturing families and young ones and centered best alpha males,” he added.
When contacted Air Force Academy officials refused to comment.
50 wild boar killed at Dundigal IAF base
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