IFS officer shares concerning video of tiger sniffing a plastic bag. Watch
You probably have seen multiple videos that show how people litter their own cities, leaving alone forest areas. The heartbreaking videos show how the innocent animals try to chew on the toxic plastic products littered by tourists.
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A video shared by IFS officer Susanta Nanda shows a similar incident. In the clip, a tiger can be seen sniffing and inspecting a plastic bag. There are several things that can affect the unsuspecting big cat. Either it could try to chew the bag and end up choking on the plastic bag, or there is a high possibility that the plastic bag will be eaten by an herbivorous animal and end up killing it.
Spare the tiger reserves. Plastics are entering to the food chain of the apex predators in the least expected areas covering less than 2.25% of our total geographic area. Be responsible pic.twitter.com/MpSUcwr3x2 -- Susanta Nanda (@susantananda3) June 10, 2023
The clip has garnered over 7k views and the numbers are swiftly increasing. People have expressed concern over the littering of plastic bags in forest areas.
It was not that long ago when IAS officer Supriya Sahu shared a heartbreaking video which shows garbage and plastic waste dumped at a camp on Mt Everest. The video, recorded by one of the mountaineers, described the camp site as 'dirty'.