Forest Department fills tanks, ponds with water in Vallanaadu Blackbuck Sanctuary

With the scorching summertime has dried-up astir each the h2o bodies and the heavy borewells wrong the Vallanaadu Blackbuck Sanctuary, the Department of Forest has started filling-up the ponds and the factual tanks wrong this parkland regularly to halt the animals straying into the adjacent villages successful hunt of nutrient and water.

The Vallanaadu Blackbuck Sanctuary, established successful 1987 connected 2,054.85 hectares connected the Palayamkottai – Thoothukudi 4-lane nationalist highway, is simply a location for blackbucks, sambar deer, spotted deer, jackal, fox, anteater, rabbits, hedgehogs, antithetic birds including peafowls, a scope of reptiles including cobra, krait, Russel’s viper etc., butterflies, inspects and moths.

To prevention this delicate ecosystem and quench the thirst of the birds and animals, the Department Forest has sunk heavy borewells astatine a fewer places wrong the sanctuary, wherever solar-powered pumps person been fitted with automatic controllers. The pump volition get switched connected automatically erstwhile the h2o level touches the optimum level.

Moreover, tiny check-dams person been built and ponds dug astatine vantage points wrong the sanctuary to store the h2o whenever it rains.

As the sweltering summertime has dried-up astir each these h2o sources, including the heavy borewells, the Forest Department has started filling-up the factual tanks wrong the sanctuary with h2o truthful that the animals would not spell retired of the sanctuary bound successful hunt of nutrient and water, wherever a scope of threats are successful store.

“If the animals, particularly the blackbucks, sambar cervid oregon the spotted deer, travel retired of the sanctuary for water, it whitethorn beryllium hunted down by the stray dogs oregon adjacent the poachers. Hence, we are filling-up regularly the tanks built wrong the sanctuary with water. We’ve designated unit to show mundane the availability of h2o successful the ground-level tanks and the ponds,” said M. Ilaiyaraja, District Forest Officer.