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Mar 7, 2007

Elephant corridors in 398 acres in Coimbatore and Nilgiri districts

Jumbo plan for elephant corridor

State Forest Minister N Selvaraj addressing a seminar on Wild Biodiversity Conservation in Chennai.State Planning Commission vice-chairman M Naganathan is also present. Tamilnadu government is to acquire 398 acres of private patta lands for creating elephant corridors in Coimbatore and Nilgiri districts in this fiscal year itself, State Forest Minister N Selvaraj said today.

'Considering the critical importance of the corridors and realising the potential danger to the elephant population steps have been taken to acquire certain private patta lands for Moyar Valley Elephant corridor and Kallar Jaccanari Corridor,Coimbatore' the Minister said while addressing a seminar on Wild Biodiversity Conservation in Tamilnadu organised by Tamilnadu Forest Department.


Expressing concern over increasing human- animal conflict, Selvaraj said, 'death of human beings, injury to human beings due to wild animal attacks is a source of major conflict with the forest enclave dwellers and forest fringe dwellers.' Another area of concern was the damage done to the crops and property particularly by elephants, wild boar and bison. In order to prevent the wild animals from straying into the crop fields and habitations, he said the government had sanctioned erecting energised solar fencing to an extent of 262.5 km with an outlay of Rs 4.24 crore.


Selvaraj said, 'the State government has taken several steps in conservation of wild biodiversity. To strengthen the legal status, two more tiger reserves namely Anamalai Tiger Reserve and Mudumalai Tiger Reserve were being set up and a bio- diversity Conservation and Rural Livelihood Improvement Prject is going to be launched shortly with an outlay of Rs 28 crore for the conservation of Agasthiarmalai landscape,' he said.


Inaugurating the seminar, State Planning Commission vice- chairman M Naganathan said Tamilnadu Forest Department was taking efforts to increase protected area up to 25 percent of the forest area, by declaring more areas as sanctuaries. 'Bio diversity conservation is to be coupled with improvement of the livelihood of the people living close to the reserve forest and protected areas,' he added.

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