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A rally to make consciousness among villagers connected the harmless installation of electrical fences astir cultivation fields and the prevention of poaching of chaotic animals was taken retired astatine Kongarpalayam colony successful the T.N. Palayam Forest Range of the Sathyamangalam Division present connected Wednesday (January 7, 2026).
Around 30 Forest Department unit participated successful the rally and distributed consciousness pamphlets to villagers. An authoritative said the Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve is the second-largest tiger reserve successful the State and supports a important colonisation of wildlife, including tigers, leopards and elephants. As October to February marks the migratory play for elephants, the animals often determination crossed wood fringes and astatine times walk done farmlands.
The authoritative said each farmers successful forest-fringe villages indispensable registry their powerfulness fences and guarantee they are installed strictly successful accordance with the Tamil Nadu Power Fences (Registration and Regulation) Rules, 2023. Every powerfulness obstruction indispensable beryllium fitted with an automatic travel mechanics to disconnect the powerfulness proviso successful the lawsuit of accidental leakage, to forestall fatal electrocution of wildlife and radical moving successful cultivation fields.
Violations would pull enactment nether the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972, causing rigorous imprisonment ranging from 3 to 7 years upon conviction, the authoritative added.
