They arrested a poacher who killed bears to eat their penis

After six years of research, the police India stopped one poacher identified as Yarlen, known in the region for his hobby to eat bear penis lazy or sluggish.

According to local media reports, his arrest took place on Saturday and was made possible thanks to the research work of a special unit created by the Department of Wildlife Protection. It was formed in 2013, after the discovery in the state of Madhya Pradesh to several sloth bear, a species classified as vulnerable, to those they lacked the genitals.

According to Time of India, the hunter belongs to a community that believes that eating the penis of these animals has healing properties, especially against sexual impotence. In addition, the suspect acknowledged to the police that had killed several tigers, bears and hundreds of boars and peacocks.

At the same time, a forestry official in Madhya Pradesh also said Yarlen had confessed that gall bladder to the businessmen of India. In this regard, he argued that certain local beliefs gave them particular properties.

On the other hand, he claimed that the man is related to the death of a tigress who disappeared in 2012 in the Pench Reserve, in this state, and whose skin appeared a year later in Nepal.

According to the agency AFP, India has more than 75% of the world's population of tigers and, according to the last official census, it had about 3,000 copies in 2018, representing a 30% increase in four years.

But despite these encouraging figures, the truth is that hunting and territorial expansion of the human being have led these big cats on the brink of extinction In the whole world.

Given this situation, in 2010, at a summit in Russia, India and 12 other countries with tiger populations promised to double it. In India, it has steadily increased since 2006