50 hectares in the critical Kallar elephant corridor declared as private forest
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June 10, 2021 11:07 IST
This is the first corridor area in the State to be brought under the Tamil Nadu Preservation of Private Forests Act, 1949
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The second edition of ‘Right of Passage: Elephant Corridors of India’ by the Wildlife Trust of India has listed Kallar as one of the corridors with “high” ecological priority. (Image for representation)
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This is the first corridor area in the State to be brought under the Tamil Nadu Preservation of Private Forests Act, 1949
Inching a step towards the protection of one of the most critical elephant corridors in Tamil Nadu, the Coimbatore District Collector has declared 50.79 hectares of private land in the Kallar elephant corridor area as private forest under the Tamil Nadu Preservation of Private Forests Act, 1949.
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COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore forest division has become bigger by 1,049.74 hectares, with district collector S Nagarajan declaring the parcels of revenue department land abutting the reserve forest in Mettupalayam, Anaimalai and Pollachi taluks as the reserve land. With this, the forest cover in the Coimbatore division has increased to 1,23,264.87 hectares from 1,22,215.13 hectares.
Forest minister K Ramachandran has appreciated the collector and forest officials for increasing the forest cover in the division to protect the passage of wild animals.
Earlier, district forest officer (DFO) D Venkatesh and team had collected details of the revenue department land adjacent to the reserve forest at Kemmampalayam, Karamadai, Tholampalayam and Maruthur in Mettupalayam taluk, Odayakulam in Anaimalai taluk, and Zamin Uthukuli in Pollachi taluk and submitted the same before the district collector a few days ago with a request to declare them as the reserve land.
Coimbatore With Forest Department staff and its biologists yet to arrive at a conclusion on the identity of an animal that was sighted by a few residents at Kalapatti in Coimbatore's suburbs, the
People of Talavadi allowed to use Talamalai Road without paying entry fee
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May 01, 2021 15:25 IST
The fee exemption has been granted as, due to the lockdown in Karnataka, the check-post in Punajanur is closed
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The forest check post at Dhimbam on the Talamalai Road in Erode district in Tamil Nadu
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The fee exemption has been granted as, due to the lockdown in Karnataka, the check-post in Punajanur is closed
Following representations from politicians, farmers and the public, the Forest Department has started allowing the people of Talavadi to use the 23 km Dhimbam - Talamalai forest road without paying the vehicle entry fee, from Saturday.