Bhubaneswar: Ace Nature and Wildlife Conservator, Susanta Nanda is aghast over people killing and eating leopard.
Principal Chief Conservator of Forst (PCCF), Wildlife, Susanta Nanda said people who kill leopard and consume its meat should be ostracised.
The two and their associates laid a trap to hunt wild boars near the forest in Deodhara village. However, a leopard fell into the trap. “They killed the leopard and consumed its meat”, PCCF said.
“This kind of person should be socially ostracised. The people should be aware that this is not acceptable in a civil society” he said.
Describing the eating of leopard meat by the two persons as barbaric, the PCCF Shri Nanda said: “In my long career as a forest department officer, I have never heard a human being eating meat of leopard or tiger. It is common that tigers kill humans and eat their flesh. This is a unique incident in the State.”
The police arrested two persons who allegedly killed a leopard and ate its meat in Nuapada district.
The forest officials of Komna forest range on Tuesday seized the severed leopard head, skins and meat and arrested two persons from the spot.