Gurugram: The South Haryana forest department is planning to open the clinics for the wild animals of Aravallis so that they can get treatment at the earliest from the doctors if they face any form of a health problem or meet with an accident.
The plan to set up clinics comes at a time when there have been incidents of increase in the population of leopards in the forested areas.
The increase in the wild cats however has resulted in increases of cases of the wild cats entering into the human areas and meet with accidents.
In most cases due to the delay of medical treatment caused the leopards to die. There have also been cases when hordes of peacocks died to infectious diseases.
The forest officials have now begun the process of scouting areas where the clinics can be built.
According to official sources, the clinics will be opened around the areas of Firozpur Jhirka and Sohna as these areas consist of diverse wildlife due to the dense forest area.
Besides Leopards, other wildlife species found in Gurugram Aravallis are Hyenas, Nilgais Civet cats and rabbits.
There are also large numbers of exotic birds that abound the green belt area during breeding seasons.
The degradation of Aravallis has had an adverse impact on wildlife.
Besides the bureaucratic delays, the officials raised the issue of encroachments, illegal mining and human hostility are some of the other major factors jeopardising the safety of wildlife in Aravallis.
"Even as steps are being taken, challenges still abound. Lack of clarity in-laws has resulted in a lot of encroachments in the green belt area for which animals have faced the brunt. Also, the human hostility towards animals has increased over the years, "said a senior official from the South Haryana wildlife
department.
"Apathy of public officials has affected a large part of flora and fauna of Aravallis. When you have a situation in the recent past where hundreds of trees are being cut to make way for a real estate project, the wildlife is surely going to suffer," said SS Oberoi, an environmental activist.