By our Staff Reporter GUWAHATI, Aug 18: Very recently the Early Birds had submitted an application to the office of the Chief Conservator of Forest (Wild Life) under RTI Act, 2005 about the status of Amchang Wild Life Sanctuary at the outskirts of Guwahati and the reply thereof had revealed tantalizing facts. The report stated that the State Public Information Officer for the department, A Rabha, Conservator of Forest (WL) had admitted that out of 7864.10 hectares of land, 770.0 hectares area are under human occupation, almost 10 per cent of the total land of the sanctuary. Due to bare minimum workforce, it is true that a few tree cutting incidents have been taking place in the sanctuary, but with the strengthening of vigilance the situation had improved by and large. The Early Birds had asked the department as to how many people have been arrested till date for various offences after declaration of sanctuary status to the forest area in June 2005. The Department had no definite reply to the question. Those who were arrested were released but with an undertaking and identification before the village headman (gaonburha). On the question of demarcation of the sanctuary's boundary, the department said that boundary had been demarcated but redemarcation had not been done. The department also admitted that a few villages have sprang up inside it's boundary in the Khanapara sector namely Amritpur, KailashNagar and Kanchan Nagar after it was given sanctuary status. Early Birds president Moloy Baruah said that such laxity on the part of the office of Conservator of Forest is deplorable and said that the department should ensure that resources of the forest are not wasted