Scientific survey on cards to end man – monkey conflict at Courtallam

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In a bid to find technological and imperishable solution to the everlasting struggle betwixt the monkeys and the respective lakhs of tourists visiting Courtallam each year, Tenkasi Forest Division has initiated a survey successful relation with the students of Sri Parasakth College for Women, Courtallam.

According to District Forest Officer, Tenkasi, R. Rajmohan, students and the module members of Sri Parasakthi College would survey antithetic troops of monkeys that people their boundaries astatine respective places of Courtallam, adjacent reserve wood and the adjoining areas, their household structure, habits, nutrient wont that got influenced by the tourists feeding the monkeys with a scope of foodstuff ranging from fruits to parotta etc. After signaling these accusation successful broad fashion, the collected information would beryllium analysed for identifying the solution for the struggle betwixt antheral and monkeys that besides participate the residential areas successful hunt of nutrient during scarcity.

“We request to person humane approach... Translocation of monkeys from the imaginable struggle zones volition ne'er enactment an extremity to this. We request to survey monkeys’ mutated habits and the nutrient habits influenced by the tourists and others. So, we’ll cod information from Courtallam, adjacent reserve wood areas and the adjoining residential areas which volition supply ample accusation to get astatine credible solution. Moreover, this survey volition besides pb the close solution for disposal of degradable discarded particularly immense quantity of nutrient discarded indiscriminately successful Courtallam by the visitors. Above all, the survey volition make consciousness among the nationalist connected conserving wildlife, particularly the monkeys, which had developed adjacent enslaved with the humans implicit the years astatine Courtallam,” Dr. Rajmohan said.

Published - January 23, 2026 09:31 p.m. IST

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