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India axes wildlife chief after tiger park 'bloodbath' NEW DELHI, Saturday (AFP) A northern Indian state suspended its top wildlife warden Friday after a probe revealed lapses had allowed largescale tiger poaching in one of India's most prestigious reserves, officials said. Rajasthan's chief warden Arun Sen and seven others were suspended as "a follow-up to an internal enquiry of official lapses in the Sariska National Park," United News of India said, quoting senior state officials. The head ranger of Sariska, where conservationalists say most of its 26 listed tigers have been killed by poachers, was one of those suspended, federal officials in New Delhi said. The step came less that two weeks after Prime Minister Manmohan set up a national wildlife crime prevention bureau to implement steps to keep poachers out of India's 27 tiger reserves which span 37,761 square kilometres (14,579 square miles). |
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