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The Forest Department has placed a cage fitted with a camera and distant power installation to trap chaotic boars that harm cultivation crops adjacent Kinathukadavu successful Coimbatore district.
The specially designed cage, which has solar-powered camera and distant power system, was placed astatine Kothavadi adjacent Kinathukadavu 2 days ago, aft farmers complained of predominant damages caused by chaotic pigs that person colonised uncultivated lands extracurricular forests. The country falls wrong the limits of the Pollachi wood scope of the Anamalai Tiger Reserve.
The cage was placed arsenic efforts made by the trained unit from the Forest Department to cull chaotic pigs with rifles did not output results.
According to the Forest Department, the cage consists of 2 parts – a tiny rectangular collapsible enclosure of 5 feet tallness with a sliding doorway and a transportation cage. Meat discarded oregon different materials that pull chaotic boar volition beryllium placed wrong the cage to lure them.
The cage has to beryllium monitored manually utilizing the camera to find retired the beingness of chaotic boars. Once pigs participate the cage, its sliding doorway tin beryllium operated with a distant power that tin beryllium operated from a region of astir 100 metres. The detachable transportation cage is utilized to transport the captured pigs to suitable earthy locations.
Pollachi Forest Range Officer K. Gnanabalamurugan said the cage, which weighs a full of 650 kg, tin clasp 8 to 10 chaotic boars.
