Patrolling and anti-poaching actions within the tiger reserves contiguous to Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu can be intensified with larger coordination amongst Forest Department personnel in these areas.
This was determined at a gathering involving senior officers and area workers drawn from Bandipur, Nagarahole, BRT, Mudumalai, Sathyamangalam, and Wayanad tiger reserves apart from representatives from the Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary in Chamarajanagar and held at Bandipur final week.
The final result of the assembly is important because it entails larger safety to what’s recognised to be the world’s largest tiger habitat that spans throughout the three States and helps almost 700 tigers within the wild.
Intelligence gathering mechanism can be stepped up and the data shared among the many area workers for larger efficacy in curbing poaching and different unlawful actions within the area.
With larger coordination and knowledge sharing, anti-poaching actions will obtain a thrust and be extra effective. In the previous, poachers used to strike in a single space of a State and slip away into an different space, making the most of lack of coordination among the many forest workers. It has been determined to accentuate joint patrolling operations alongside the forest boundaries that span the three States.
Bandipur in Karnataka shares boundary with Mudumali in Tamil Nadu whereas Nagarahole shares borders with Wayanad in Kerala. The Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary abuts the Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve and it was on this a part of the panorama (Cauvery–Sathyamangalam) the place poachers had a free run owing to lack of patrolling.
The assembly additionally determined to conduct a particular operation or a drive entailing the workers of the three States and crack down on smugglers of wildlife derivatives and poachers suspected to be working in these areas and strengthen safety to forests and wildlife. This will entail confiscation of unlicensed weapons and it was resolved within the assembly to crack down and seize such weapons, together with weapons with out licence, in possession of individuals residing within the villages bordering the forest area spanning throughout the three States.
S.R. Natesh, Director, Bandipur Tiger Reserve, mentioned a gathering of senior officers can be held as soon as in two months on the tri-junction — the place the borders of Bandipur, Nagarahole, and Wayanad meet — to evaluation their actions and progress. Besides, area workers of the three States the place the forests are contiguous would assist one another in firefighting operations, he added.
Vijai Kumar Gogi, PCCF (Wildlife), Karnataka; N.S. Murali, IG Forests, NTCA (South); Nihar Ranjan, Chief Conservator of Forests, Satyamangalam; Ok.Ok. Koushal, Field Director, Project Tiger, Mudumalai; Manoj Kumar, Chief Conservator of Forests, Chamarajanagar Circle; officers and different fields workers of the three States attended the assembly.
