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A cage was set up in Thovarimala under the Meppadi forest range to capture the tiger following the villagers' complaint about its presence in human-inhabited areas.
According to the Central Ministry's order, the state government must plant trees on 17.263 hectares and declare them as reserve forest in place of the land utilized for the project.
Incidentally, this is the first time that the list has been prepared based on the ‘Spark’ salary software for state government employees.
The department has come up with a strange explanation that the conflagrations gut only dry grasslands and bush forests while ‘sparing’ trees, causing minimal loss of biodiversity.
The VACB would begin the probe after registering the FIR as soon as the Forest Department gets the Government's nod to transfer the case.
The tiger has been shifted to the Animal Conservation, Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre of the Karnataka forest department at Koorgalli in Mysore.
Arikomban has destroyed four houses at BL Ram in the last one week. A herd of female elephants was also spotted in the region.
On Friday, the elephants stayed in one of the estates for hours until being forced away by forest officers after several failed attempts. The elephants, however, did not return to the woodlands, according to a wildlife officer.
Sakthivel had apparently failed to see the elephants in the dense fog and the animals had trampled him to death.
The elephant was tranquilised on Sunday morning and caged by afternoon.
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