Navhind Times
June 27, 2008
PANAJI — Battery as well as solar panel-operated electrical fence, elephant protection trenches (EPT), watchtowers along the Goa-Maharashtra border area, pair of a male-female tamed elephants and an elephant camp at Pernem are some of the medium-term as well as long-term measures to be taken up by the forest department to control the wild elephants creating nuisance in the Northernmost part of Goa.
The chief conservator of forests, Mr C A Reddy, speaking to ‘The Navhind Times’, on Thursday morning said that all these elephant-control measures cannot be adopted in isolation and would be taken up collectively with the participation of deputy conservators of forests for wildlife as well as for eco-tourism. “However, our objectives cannot be achieved without the public support,” he added.
Mr Reddy also said that the short-term measures are already being taken to control elephant menace and include increase in the amount of compensation to the villagers whose plantations and other property is destroyed by the elephants. He also maintained that the disbursal of compensation amount is quick.
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