There are no takers for Himachali monkeys as after Nagaland, Mizoram has also expressed their unwillingness to accept the simians that the hill state is hoping to translocate to the Northeast.
The Deputy Conservator of Forest (HQR), Department of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Mizoram), C. Lalbaika, has informed an NGO that the state has already expressed its unwillingness to Himachal to accept monkeys.
“Since we have our own thriving population of monkeys, we are not in a position to transport them from Himachal,” he wrote to Principal Chief Wildlife Warden and Chief Wildlife Warden. Himachal has also written to Sikkim and Meghalaya to allow transportation of some of its monkeys to their states.
Mizoram provided this information in response to a query from Humane Society International, which has been opposing the translocation of monkeys from HP to Northeast. The Chief Wildlife Warden of Nagaland, Satya Prakash Tripathi, in a letter dated November 29, 2016 told the Principal Chief Conservator (Wildlife) Himachal that they are not in a position to allow the translocation of monkeys.
As such hopes of HP to get rid of some of its monkeys have been dashed with none of the Northeastern states responding in the affirmative. The Humane Society International had also written to the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests and Climate Change against such a move.
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