Environment Minister Eshwar Khandre|Image Credit: File Photo
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Environment Minister Eshwar Khandre has actually directed forest authorities to go to towns found in the periphery of forests and to perform complaint redressal conferences when a month.
Chairing the Standing Committee conference of the State Wildlife Board, Mr. Khandre stated that officers holding the ranks of Deputy Conservator of Forests (DCF), Assistant Conservator of Forests (ACF) and Range Forest Officers must convene as soon as a month, listen to the complaints of villagers and take actions to fix them.
‘Listen to villagers’
He stated that forest officers and personnel must go to the towns where death and crop damage have actually been reported owing to man-animal dispute.
He stated that the authorities ought to analyze the circumstance, listen to the issues of the villagers, solve them and preserve excellent relations with them.
He likewise pointed out the death of 5 tigers in M.M. Hills and the death of wild elephants after being available in contact with unlawfully set up electrical fences.
He stated that such occurrences can be avoided if senior authorities check out each forest zone and examine the efficiency of the zonal officers and forest patrol workers, and inspire them.
The Minister likewise evaluated the proposition for doubling the train track from Hosapete to Castle Rock and talked about the procedures to be required to alleviate the effects of the task on biodiversity, environment and wildlife, and directed to provide the proposition in the next conference.
Marine sanctuary
Mr. Khandre likewise stated that the Mugli-Apsarakonda Marine Sanctuary, which will be the State’s very first marine sanctuary, will be officially inaugurated in September.
A proposition was cleared by the State Cabinet in June. The sanctuary is topped 5,959 hectares, near Honnavar in Uttara Kannada district. The proposition was authorized by the Karnataka State Board for Wildlife a couple of years earlier.