{"id":383206,"date":"2020-11-09T11:15:59","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T05:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=383206"},"modified":"2020-11-09T11:52:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T06:22:58","slug":"assam-forms-expert-team-to-tackle-jackal-menace-at-guwahati-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/assam-forms-expert-team-to-tackle-jackal-menace-at-guwahati-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Assam forms expert team to tackle \u2018jackal menace\u2019 at Guwahati airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Assam Department of Environment and Forests has constituted a team of experts to tackle the \u201cjackal menace\u201d at Guwahati\u2019s Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) prepared by the Divisional Forest Officer, Assam State Zoo Division, the jackals will be identified, captured and released in other suitable habitats in Guwahati.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was brought to our notice that jackals make frequent appearances inside the airport complex,\u201d said Chief Conservator of Forest, Central Assam Circle, Hemkanta Talukdar, who is heading the committee, \u201cWhile no mishap has been reported yet, it could potentially be a safety hazard, especially during landing and take-off.\u201d The forest department team carried out a recce of the airport premises on Wednesday and the steps to implement the SOP are currently being discussed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Assam Department of Environment and Forests has constituted a team of experts to tackle the \u201cjackal menace\u201d at Guwahati\u2019s Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport. According to the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) prepared by the Divisional Forest Officer, Assam State Zoo Division, the jackals will be identified, captured and released in other suitable habitats in Guwahati. \u201cIt was brought to our notice that jackals make frequent appearances inside the airport complex,\u201d said Chief Conservator of Forest, Central Assam Circle, Hemkanta Talukdar, who is heading the committee, \u201cWhile no mishap has been reported yet, it could potentially be a safety hazard, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}