Animal skin worth Rs 10 crores destroyed in Kashmir

By News Agency of Kashmir

Srinagar : State Wild Life Department destroyed animal skins worth more than rupees ten crores, here on Sunday.


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Sources said that the department had confiscated the animals skins from various places across the Kashmir Valley in the year 1997 and the same were still lying with the department.

The domesticated skins were today destroyed on the directions of High Court of Jammu and Kashmir, here today, official sources told News Agency of Kashmir adding the destroyed skins include some of endangered wild animal such as common fox, desert cat, leopard cat, leopard skins and tiger skins.

“The skins were seized by the department in the year 1997 and at that time the value of the domesticated skins were estimated Rs 9.42 crore rupee”, Chief wildlife warden A.K Shrivastva said adding that the value of the same has increased many folds in the national and international market today.

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