Awareness campaign against plastic use held during temple festival in Mudumalai Tiger Reserve

An consciousness programme against the usage of integrative wrong the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve was conducted during the Masikarupendaiyan temple festival successful The Nilgiris.

The three-day run was organised betwixt June 7 and 9.The temple is located wrong the wood adjacent Anaikatti colony and is managed by the section Irula tribal community.

“The festival is traditionally celebrated each twelvemonth aft the onset of the archetypal monsoon rains, erstwhile h2o begins to travel successful the adjacent river. Devotees from antithetic parts of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Kerala enactment successful this festival. The consciousness programme was jointly organised by Mudumalai Tiger Reserve and Eco Voice Trust. During the festival, consciousness was created among devotees connected the value of avoiding single-use plastics, preventing wood fires, and not littering liquor bottles and different discarded successful the wood area,” a property merchandise stated.

S. Manikandan, Founder of Eco Voice Trust, stated that consciousness programmes person been conducted continuously for the past 3 years during the festival. He observed that this twelvemonth the Forest Department implemented strict protocols to guarantee eco-friendly celebrations. Forest unit from assorted locations successful the Nilgiris, on with constabulary unit and volunteers, actively participated successful maintaining subject and managing the festival, helium said.