The Wildlife Conservation Department has started an investigation into the peacock poaching video that was circulated on the YouTube channel ‘Go With Ali’.
In the video, a foreigner and a few Vedi youths entering the Maduru Oya National Park hunt a peacock, roast it and eat it. Director General of Wildlife Conservation Department Chandana Suriyabandara says that investigations have been started to find the foreigner and the four indigenous people who trespassed into the Maduruoya National Park.
An incident of a foreigner including a foreigner and 4 indigenous people entering Maduruoya National Park illegally and killing and eating a peacock was reported earlier. The related case is pending in Mahianganaya Magistrate Court.