Farmers from various parts of the district have demanded the Forest Department and the Coimbatore district administration to ensure timely payment of compensation for crops damaged by wild animals and effective measures to prevent animals from entering human habitations. Removal of encroachments on forest boundaries, routine maintenance of trenches and establishment of solar fencing along forest boundaries were among other …
The Govanur Valley in Coimbatore district is emerging as a hotbed of negative interactions involving humans and wild elephants. Members of the Govanur Meetpu Kuzhu, a committee of people who are fighting against illegal mining by brick kiln operators in the Valley, allege that elephants started entering villages due to excavation of red earth from uncultivated lands at the foothills …
The identification of boundaries of all the 26 protected forests of Kerala will begin shortly to earmark the Ecologically Sensitive Zones around them. Incidentally, the court order had triggered protests in different parts of the State with both the ruling LDF and the Opposition UDF calling for hartals fearing that the marking of ESZ may hit the populations living close …
