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Four wood teams comprising scope officers and foresters person been monitoring the question of a herd of 13 elephants including 4 infants camping successful Panamdangi Reserve Forest (RF) adjacent Katpadi successful Vellore connected the Tamil Nadu- Andhra Pradesh borderline connected Saturday.
The thrust comes successful the aftermath of a herd of elephants reportedly destroying ample tracts of farmlands, mostly banana and coconut groves, successful areas similar Rajiv Gandhi Nagar and Indira Nagar adjacent Panamadangi RF, that comes nether Katpadi wood scope for the past fewer days. “Once successful a year, herds of elephants migrate from Kaundinya wildlife sanctuary successful A.P to wood areas adjacent Katpadi, chiefly for food. Efforts person been taken to restrict the herd’s question successful Chittapara forests successful Chittoor territory of A.P,” T.K. Ashok Kumar, District Forest Officer (DFO), Vellore Division, told The Hindu.
Along with wood officials and police, A.S. Marimuthu, Chief Conservator of Forests (CCF) and Mr. Kumar inspected the harvest raid by the herd of elephants successful affected areas. The herd of elephants person camped successful Sorakalpattu, Thondanthulasi, and Pallakollai villages that travel nether Katpadi wood scope since January 4.
The herd damaged banana crops and coconut groves successful these villages earlier they were chased distant heavy into the forests. “Approximately 1 acre of banana plantation was wholly destroyed by elephants, which raided during nighttime. Apart from providing timely capable compensation, the territory medication should instrumentality steps to forestall specified harvest raids by elephants,” said B. Sokkan, a farmer.
In coordination with wood officials, Collector V.R. Subbulaxmi reviewed the steps taken to forestall specified harvest raids by the herd. She besides directed wood officials to usage drones to way the question of elephants successful the forests arsenic it would assistance them instrumentality steps to restrict its movements wrong the forests.
Forest officials said that wood ranges similar Pernambut, Gudiyatham, and Katpadi are located on the T.N-A.P border. Around 15,000 hectares of forests travel nether these ranges. Most of the elephants that migrate into these wood areas are from Kaundinya sanctuary. Such migration happens during the months of January - February.
Along with section residents and the police, wood officials person been patrolling distant villages connected the fringes of forests on the borderline to forestall elephants from venturing into habitation areas successful the coming days. At present, determination is nary nonaccomplishment of quality lives successful the identified affected villages wherever crops person been damaged, wood officials said.
