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Following the fatal incidental astatine the Dubare Elephant Camp that claimed the beingness of a pistillate tourist, Minister for Forest, Ecology and Environment Eshwar B. Khandre connected Monday directed that tourists should not beryllium allowed adjacent elephants and indispensable support a minimum region of 100 feet portion watching elephant bathing activities astatine each elephant camps crossed the State. The directive volition travel into effect from Tuesday.
The Minister besides ordered the framing of a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for tourer information astatine each elephant camps and instructed the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests and Chief Wildlife Warden to tighten information measures.
The determination follows the incidental astatine the Dubare Elephant Camp adjacent Kushalnagar successful Kodagu district, wherever 2 captive elephants clashed during a bathing session, starring to the decease of a tourer from Tamil Nadu.
As portion of the contiguous measures, tourists volition not beryllium permitted to attack elephants nether immoderate circumstances. Visitors volition besides beryllium barred from taking selfies oregon photographs successful adjacent proximity to elephants and from participating successful elephant bathing activities, Mr. Khandre stated successful a property release.
The Minister said that an SOP had already been prepared for eco-tourism trekking routes and that operations astatine specified trails had been temporarily suspended until the implementation of information protocols. Similar guidelines, helium said, would present beryllium prepared for elephant camps for visitant safety.
The caller restrictions are aimed astatine regulating tourer enactment with captive elephants and preventing recurrence of specified incidents. Officials person besides been directed not to let tourists to provender elephants straight with bananas, jaggery, sugarcane oregon immoderate different nutrient items.
