Forest Department ups vigil as more elephants use Coimbatore forests for migration

The Forest Department has stepped up vigil crossed its 7 ranges successful the Coimbatore Forest Division arsenic the fig of elephants utilizing the wilderness has gone up owed to the yearly migration.

Elephants of the visiting herds that person travel from the Kerala broadside person already started entering villages causing damages to crops, arsenic they traverse towards Sirumugai and Sathyamangalam.

Officials accidental the yearly question is captious for the agelong word endurance of the species, helping successful familial speech betwixt Nilambur – Silent Valley – Coimbatore elephant colonisation scope and Brahmagiri – Nilgiris – Eastern Ghats colonisation range.

“Additional teams person been constituted successful ranges that are witnessing regular question of elephants successful villages bordering forests,” said District Forest Officer N. Jayaraj.

He said frontline unit person been enactment connected precocious alert successful ranges specified arsenic Sirumugai, Periyanaickenpalayam, Karamadai, Boluvampatti and Coimbatore ranges, wherever incidents of elephants entering villages are connected the rise, erstwhile compared with erstwhile months.