The Karnataka government Thursday declared the development of a leopard team for Bengaluru because of continuous sightings of leopards in regions like Kaggalipura, Anekal, Yelahanka, Hoskote, and K R Puram.
State Climate Priest Eshwar Khandre said the team would work from Saturday (November 25).
Following expanding occurrences of man-creature struggle, Khandre Thursday held a gathering with senior authorities of the woodland division and guided them to go to preventive lengths. It is to be noticed that Karthik, an individual from the elephant team in Mudigere, was killed in an elephant assault that very day.
He requested that the authorities examine elephant assault passings over the most recent two years and make a note of the district that has the largest number of passings, and the justification behind the assaults.
He guided them to go to medicinal lengths, remembering illuminating local people for advance on what they ought to do during such circumstances.
He said that additional endeavors ought to be placed into introducing rail line barricades, elephant regulation channels and sun powered walls to forestall jumbos from entering human territories.
“Officials will be held responsible for the delay. It has also been informed that all senior officers should spend at least two days a week in high-threat areas and observe the situation and provide proper guidance to the staff. Senior Indian Forest Service officers have been appointed the nodal officers for various districts to mitigate man-animal conflict,” Khandre said.
Nodal officials have been designated in Kolar, Tumakuru, Bengaluru Provincial, Ramanagara, Hassan, Chikkamagaluru, Mysuru, Chamrajnagar, and Kodagu regions to set up a human-creature moderation plan in conference with the locale director of police and different authorities.
These authorities will present their field reports to the vital boss conservator of woodlands (wildlife). In light of the field reports, the PCCF (wildlife) will set up a thorough arrangement at the state level and submit it to the public authority.
“Some experts believe that lack of water and food in the forest is the reason behind elephants straying into human habitats. In this background, it is directed to take steps to ensure that the elephants get fruits, leaves, and bamboo among all in the forest. The forest department should ensure that there is enough water in the forest even in the summer,” Khandre said.
