Amid fear of monkeys expanding their territory in the agriculture areas on the foothills of Shivaliks in Jammu division, many farmers in 1590 affected villages have either migrated to towns in search of jobs or shun growing the traditional crops that are destroyed by wild simians.
After requests by China in April, Sri Lanka has received more requests to export monkeys, Sri Lanka Agriculture Minister Mahinda Amaraweera told in the Parliament.
Battling with a mammoth debt, Sri Lanka's Agriculture Minister last week announced a plan to export 1,00,000 monkeys to China, the country's biggest bilateral lender.
Monkey problem on highways is not confined only to Jammu and Kashmir but also in the neighbouring Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. Bikers complain of being chased by monkeys on the highway.
Groups of marauding monkeys, who went missing from the town few days after the state government imposed curfew on 24 March, can again be seen in parts of Shimla with lockdown easing, take away food joints opening and human activity increasing on streets.
The number of monkeys in the baseline survey in Himachal in 2003-04 was 3.17 lakh.
This was stated by Forest Minister Govind Singh Thakur during one day workshop on Human-Wildlife Conflict (Monkeys) in Himachal Pradesh for Shimla, Dharamshala Municipal Corporations, all Nagar Panchayats and Nagar Parishads of the state.
Some years ago I pointed out in The Statesman how the langur, which used to be quite a feature of the hilltop shrine of Sholinghur in the South, has been completely exterminated there by hunters.
The monkey menace has kept foresters on toes over the last two decades in Himachal Pradesh. It may, however, be…
As many as 5,974 persons were bitten by monkeys here since January 1, 2014, which comes to 3.6 cases of monkey-bite per day, according to the data.
