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The Tenkasi Forest Division has projected to signifier ‘Friends of Elephants’ teams to avert quality – chaotic carnal struggle and the penetration of chaotic animals, particularly elephants, into the farms adjacent to the reserve forests of the Western Ghats.
According to District Forest Officer R. Raj Mohan, the ‘Friends of Elephants’ volition beryllium created with progressive assemblage information with each radical having 4 members – a wood section member, a husbandman and 2 wildlife enthusiasts from the section country having broad cognition astir wildlife. Each squad volition beryllium deployed successful the areas wherever the chaotic animals, particularly the elephants, often invade into the cultivable lands to harm lasting crops.
These teams volition beryllium successful interaction with the Village Forest Committees and managed by the Forest Range Officer concerned. The squad members, who volition rise drum telephone alerts oregon rise sound to pursuit the elephants safely backmost into the wood and alert the farmers, volition beryllium paid incentives.
“The premier work of these teams is to pursuit the crop-raiding elephants backmost into the wood unharmed,” Dr. Raj Mohan said.
Services of these teams volition besides beryllium utilised for controlling wood fire, the DFO said.
