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Forest Minister Eshwar Khandre has said that the State authorities has decided to found a soft-release centre for chaotic elephants straying into quality habitations, dispersed crossed 2,000 hectares of land. He said the tender process for the centre would beryllium initiated wrong 8 to 10 days.
Speaking to journalists successful Hassan connected Tuesday, the Minister said that hundreds of chaotic elephants had been venturing extracurricular wood boundaries, causing distress to section communities and damaging crops.
He said the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests had submitted a elaborate study recommending the mounting up of a soft-release centre arsenic a semipermanent measurement to code human-elephant conflict, peculiarly successful parts of Hassan, Kodagu, and Chikkamagaluru districts. Tenders would beryllium invited successful accordance with the recommendations of the report, helium added.
According to Forest Department officials, the soft-release centre is projected to travel up wrong the Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary. It volition diagnostic an enclosure secured by railway barricades, wherever captured elephants volition beryllium housed and intimately monitored for respective months earlier being gradually released backmost into the forest.
No caller zoo
Responding to a question, the Minister said determination was nary connection earlier the authorities to found a caller zoo. “Setting up a zoo requires anterior support from the Central government, and its attraction demands sustained funding. At present, zoos crossed the State are being maintained utilizing revenues generated by the Mysuru and Bannerghatta zoos,” helium said.
The Minister besides said the section would determination to reclaim wood onshore that had been encroached upon, adding that the process to retrieve astir 100 acres of encroached onshore astatine Madenur, adjacent Shantigrama successful Hassan taluk, was already underway.
Hassan Circle Conservator of Forests Yedukondalu V. and DCF Sourabh Kumar were present.
