A Tribute To One If Our Own, golam Habib Dulal

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

@Hunter-Habib is one of my dearest friends and mentors who has taught me so very much! It is so rare and who amongst us can lay claim to taking not one but three man eating tigers in our life time!!! I highly recommend his book Baagh Skirari book which translates The last tiger hunter. Golam is a tribute to us all. As for me I am honored and privileged to call him my friend!!!!!

@Rare Breed
You will get no arguments from me on that one.
He is a truly knowledgeable and humble man
Bob

 

[Hunter-Habib]

Thank you everybody for your kind words of appreciation. I truly am never bothered to correspond with any of you whenever you chose to reach out to me. I rather consider it to be an immense privilege to dialogue with so many like minded individuals who share the same interests as myself. My father always says "If you can help even ONE member of your fellow man, why won't you ?". As a matter of fact, I have learnt more from each & everyone of you than all of you put together have learnt from me.

@Ontario Hunter "I.G.F" means "Inspector General of Forests". Depending upon which government body is/was in power, the person in charge of all of the nation's forests is either designated as this or as the CCF (Chief Conservator of Forests). You are elected for this position. I served two terms as CCF from 1993-2000 before I became an MP (Member of Parliament). Then, I retired from politics in 2005.

My current post is a temporary one appointed by the interim government's Ministry of Forests. They had shortlisted a group of potential candidates to tackle the large scale poaching issues which had become rampant during the recent civil war. I was not told how many candidates were approached in total. But I initially politely refused to take the post when they approached me on August 7th (two days after the previous government was overthrown). I don't know what the other candidates said. But later, the Ministry approached me again and told me that it would be a very big help if I took this responsibility at least for a year. So that I would train the newly formed anti poaching units and problem animal control units for the various forest department's across the nation. I can step down next year after a younger (and hopefully more qualified) IGF is found. I intend to step down as soon as a suitable replacement is found. This IGF business is a young man's game. I am fortunately of sound body & mind. And I don't suffer from any ailments. But I want to spend time with my family, hunt & (most importantly) keep going on my African Safaris.

In regards to the reason for the civil war, I am afraid that this is a very very long topic for this thread. If you look at my posts in the "Politics" thread from August, then you will find my lengthy assessment on the matter.