ONGOLE: With the raise in temperature, wild animals together with wild canines, bears, tigers, deers and other animals of Nallamala forest are venturing into nearby villages in lookup of consuming h2o.
The forest officials made elaborate arrangements to fill all the h2o resources of the forest, like saucer pits and ponds to cater to the wants of the wild animals in order to avoid the incidents of human-wild animal conflicts. Nallamala Tiger Reserve forest in the blended Prakasam, Kurnool and Guntur districts extends up to 1,402.72 km. In accordance to the 2018 Tiger Census, the forest has about 72 large cats.
The bordering villagers of Nallamala-Srisailam Tiger Reserve are caught in worry with the tiger actions in the human habitation for the previous number of weeks. An incident of cattle demise arrived into light on Friday in close proximity to Devalootu forest limits in Pedda Dornala mandal triggered worry among the the villagers as the forest team discovered that the cow was attacked by a tiger. Not too long ago, villagers of Gundamcherla (Peddaraveedu mandal) recognized the movements of tiger even as they discovered pug marks of a tiger in close proximity to Subbareddy Kunta locality. The forest section officials also verified that the tiger movements. DRO Naga Raju, who frequented the village, designed consciousness on conservation of tigers.
In this link, the forest office has targeted on making drinking drinking water obtainable to wild animals, such as tigers, in get to continue to keep which maintain them within just the forest limits. “We have filled all 10 saucer pits positioned in Yerragonda Palem forest vary restrictions to cater the h2o needs of the wild animals. This will lessen the wild animals actions out of the forest places,” Venkateswara Rao, portion officer defined.
The Markapur Forest Division has about 200 saucer pits together with check out dams, tiny ponds to provide ingesting drinking water to the wild animals.
