Nearly five decades ago, the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, empowered a state’s chief wildlife warden to permit any person to hunt a wild animal if he or she was satisfied that it had become dangerous to human life.
For M K Ranjitsinh, who drafted the landmark Act as a young IAS officer, it was a no-brainer. “How can one protect a maneater or a rogue elephant? But the Act ensures that the decision to declare an animal as dangerous to human life is taken at the top level,” he says.
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The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper column-inches than any other cryptozoological subject. There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived by us in some way, so we should have a go at publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in. Curated by Carl Marshall and Olivia McCarthy
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