KARWAR: The 850 sq km area that covers Project Tiger in Anashi forest in Uttara Kannada district will be extended by adding another 270 sq. km buffer area, according to the forest department.
The conservator of forest has already issued the notification in this regard. Project Tiger has gained importance in the country of late and about 7,748 hectares in Kadra range and 16,333 hectares in Diggi forest range was added to the existing project area. And this 270 sq. km area is already handed over to the wild life division of the forest department, according to Sunil Panwar, deputy conservator of forest.
The villages Kadra, Balemane and Birkol-Sulageri on the left bank of Kali River were added to Project Tiger. According to G K Shet, the range forest officer of Balni in Karwar taluk, he saw a tiger on the road of Balni village during mid-night recently. The importance of the Balni forest is enhanced by the presence of the tigers in the region, he said. For last two years no poaching incidence was reported from the forest. Tigers, panthers, black panthers and bison are being spotted in the Balemane-Sulageri forest, Shet said.
Meanwhile, the forest department with the help of NGOs has taken up a novel programme of creating awareness among the students about wild life protection. About 1,400 students of 52 villages that fall under the Anashi-Dandeli protected forest were made to participate in the nature camp. These students are creating awareness among their family members and this has considerably reduced poaching in the area, Panwar said. At their homes these students were successful in stopping the preparation of food using the meat of the wild animals. Now local people have almost stopped poaching, he said.
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