As many as 19 peacocks had been discovered useless on the Hanumanthapura village in Karnataka’s Tumakuru district during the last two days. Though officers haven’t but confirmed the precise trigger, preliminary investigations recommend that poisoning might have led to the dying of the peacocks, India’s nationwide hen.
Farmers making their routine area visits within the Madhugiri taluka discovered carcasses of 14 feminine peacocks and 5 male peacocks scattered throughout agricultural land and alerted forest division officers. They had been handed over to animal husbandry medical officers for forensic examination to find out the reason for dying.
The primary carcass was found close to the Kere Kodi waterfall Saturday, whereas the others had been later discovered within the surrounding fields. Villager residents imagine the peacocks died Friday evening.
This incident provides to a troubling pattern of unnatural wildlife deaths in Karnataka. In July, 20 monkeys had been found useless within the Chamarajanagar district, with forest and police officers suspecting poisoning as investigations proceed.
In June, the state witnessed one other wildlife tragedy when a tigress and her 4 cubs died within the Male Mahadeshwara Hills Wildlife Sanctuary after consuming a poisoned cow carcass. A probe revealed that native village residents allegedly poisoned the carcass and three folks had been arrested later.
As per an investigation, the tigress had hunted a cow and dragged it into the forest. The village residents allegedly sprayed carbofuran, an odourless and extremely poisonous pesticide, on the carcass. The tigers had been believed to have consumed the poisoned carcass and died.
The probe additionally revealed administrative lapses within the forest division. Salaries for outsourced staff weren’t disbursed for March, April and Might, 2025, resulting in a protest by watchers in entrance of the workplace of the divisional conservator of forest (DCF) on the Male Mahadeshwara Hills Wildlife Sanctuary June 23. The probe report famous that the officers did not carry out their fundamental responsibility of making certain well timed fee of wages to watchers, though the funds had been made out there on the finish of April.