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Honey
stolen from Corbett National Park: 3 held Nainital:
Forest Department officials and rangers of Jim Corbett National Park have
arrested three persons on charges of setting fire in the forest for scaring away
the bees from their hives and collect honey. "When our staff members woke up,
they saw smoke coming out of the forest. When they went out to check they saw
two persons sitting under a tree and another one on the tree, who was extracting
honey from the beehive. They then held those persons," said D S Rawat, Superintendent,
Corbett National Park, Ramnagar, Uttarakhand. Admitting their guilt, one of the
arrested persons said that the smoke emitted by the fire would keep the bees at
bay and let them collect honey from the hives on treetops. "We take some green
leaves and then light them, after which smoke comes out, which chases the bees
away and we take out the honey," said Lalan, one of the arrested persons. Officials
also recovered three kilograms of fresh honey from the nabbed persons. In the
recent past there had been several instances of fire raging in the forestlands
posing a grave threat to the flora and fauna of the famed Jim Corbett National
Park. -June
23, 2009 Go
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