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The Forest Department has intensified patrolling successful and astir villages astatine Vazhapadi successful Salem territory to forestall the behaviour of Vanga fox (Bengal fox) jallikattu arsenic portion of Pongal festival.
The villages, including Kottavadi, Thamaiyanur, C.N. Palayam, Periya Krishnapuram, Chinna Krishnapuram, Payyanur, Padaiyachiur, Yethapur, Belur, Panaimadal, Puthiragoundanpalayam, utilized to behaviour Vanga fox jallikattu during Pongal.
The villagers seizure the fox from the wood and instrumentality it to the section temple and execute pooja. They past instrumentality the carnal to each household successful the colony (as radical judge seeing a fox brings bully fortune) and aboriginal merchandise it successful the forest.
The villagers believed that the vanga fox jallikattu brought rainfall to the colony and destroyed evil forces.
But, the Bengal fox was listed arsenic an endangered species under the Wildlife (Protection) Act 8 years ago, and the capturing of the carnal was banned.
Despite the ban, the section villagers seizure the fox arsenic portion of the festival and wage the fine. For the past 2 years, the Forest Department had strictly prevented radical from entering the wood and the lawsuit was not conducted successful these villages. For the 3rd consecutive year, the Department intensified the patrolling and warned radical of terrible enactment if they tried to seizure the fox.
The Forest Department officials said that based connected the instructions from the District Forest Officer (DFO), Kashyap Shashank Ravi, 100 wood staff, including those from Dharmapuri and Krishnagiri districts, engaged successful patrolling time and nighttime for the past 1 week. This monitoring volition beryllium proceed till the extremity of the Tamil period Thai .
Pamphlets were distributed to the villagers and thoroughfare plays were conducted to item the beneficial relation played by the fox successful controlling pests (it eats rats and peacock eggs successful the farmlands). Awareness programmes were besides conducted successful schools. Town buses plying done these villages besides carried consciousness posters, the officials added.
