NEWSTALK 860 » wildlife poachers http://ksfa860.com Fri, 24 May 2013 01:46:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Indian State Declares Open Season on Poachers http://ksfa860.com/indian-state-declares-open-season-on-poachers/ http://ksfa860.com/indian-state-declares-open-season-on-poachers/#comments Wed, 23 May 2012 17:16:20 +0000 Jim Bell http://ksfa860.com/?p=67868 A state in western India is so disgusted with tiger poachers that it has declared open season on them.  The government of the state of Maharashtra is allowing state forest guards to shoot illegal hunters on sight -- in an effort to put a stop to the rampant killing of protected wildlife, especially the dwindling population of tigers.

To make this legal, this government simply declared that killing or injuring suspected poachers is not a crime anymore.

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