Highlights:
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| Adegaon - Forest Department staff join village school teacher and students in plantation drive |
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| Adegaon - Saplings distributed by us in village school |
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| Our Conservation Officer Prameek Kanna monitors unloading of saplings to be used in our plantation drive |
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| Adegaon - Villagers collect saplings |
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| Chorgaon - Wildlife film screening |
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| Katwal - Student of village school takes part in drawing contest |
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| Katwal - Villagers collect saplings distributed by us |
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| Katwal - Villagers collect saplings distributed by us |
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| Katwal - Villagers plant sapling in plantation drive |
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| Mudholi - Staff and students of village school take part in plantation drive |
Team:
Prameek Kannan – Conservation Officer
Bandu Kumare – Field Assistant
Highlights
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1,257 saplings planted in Adegaon,
Chorgaon, Katwal, Kondegaon, Mudholi, and Bhamdeli
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Environment education programmes in 4
schools - 130 students attended
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Film shows on nature and wildlife
conservation in 6 schools - 243 students
attended
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Our Mobile Health Unit treated 472
patients for free in 5 villages
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Visited site of a fatal tiger attack on
a man in Khutwanda
Conservation
Our tree planting drive got off to a start in the buffer zone
of Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR), with 1,257 saplings being planted in
different villages during July. Most of our activities this month centered
around tree planting activities.
On the 24th of July, while at Sitarampeth with
the Mobile Health Unit (MHU), Conservation Officer Prameek Kannan was called to
a house to remove a cobra. The resident claimed this cobra had come near his
house and had hidden itself in a pipe that was underground with an opening near
his toilet. The resident of the house wanted to dig up the pipe so that Prameek
could get the snake out and then transport it far away, preferably near the
Irai dam.
To this, Prameek said this would be a highly dangerous and
completely unnecessary procedure.
Besides the danger of agitating an already stressed snake by digging,
this would also take out a potentially territorial animal, whose vacant territory
may draw in more snakes near the house and compound the problem. He said the
best thing to do would be to not venture near the area for some time to allow
the already agitated animal to leave of its own accord.
Also on 24th of July, Prameek responded to a call
about a fatal tiger attack on a man in Khutwanda village. Here, 65 year-old
Manek Jumnake of Khutwanda, was attacked as he was grazing his cattle at the
edge of the forest about 2km from Kutwanda village. Two other men with him
claimed they saw a tiger in the forest near his body as they made their way
towards the spot. Forest department staff that were taking measurements at the
attack site it was most likely a female tiger, based on the pugmarks.
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