Joint survey to map mangroves outside reserve forests in Konaseema begins

The Forest and Revenue Department officials volition statesman a associated survey to place mangrove wood screen on the banks of the stream Godavari successful Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Konaseema District. The survey aims astatine identifying the mangrove wood screen extracurricular the reserve wood and the wood department.

Responding to a directive by the State government, District Collector R. Mahesh Kumar connected Tuesday directed the officials to implicit the associated survey by June 10.

District wood serviceman M.V. Prasada Rao has claimed that the mangrove screen spreading implicit 4,000 hectares is retired of the reserve forests successful the territory and is not nether the purview of the wood department.

The wood section is apt to travel up with an enactment program for conservation of the mangroves retired of the reserve forests, helium added.