Face masks provided to the villagers by the forest department as a safety measure in view of the movement of tigers. File photo
A tiger was spotted crossing the railway tracks near Makidi village in Telangana’s Komram Bheem Asifabad district on Wednesday, prompting forest officials to request railway officials to slow down the speed of trains plying in the forests of the Telangana-Maharashtra border railway line. .
A video of a man recording the activity of a tiger on a railway track on his mobile phone went viral on social media on Wednesday afternoon. The video footage has created ripples among people living in areas around Makidi and Jakkapur villages on the interstate border with Maharashtra. After the tiger was spotted near Makidi village on Wednesday, the forest department conducted drone surveillance in the forest area along the Telangana-Maharashtra border.
November 29, 2024 A woman farm laborer was killed in a tiger attack near Isgaon village of Kagaznagar mandal and a day later a farmer was seriously injured in a tiger attack in Dubbaguda village of Sirpur (T) mandal of the same district. . Incidents of tiger attacks on cattle in the Kagaznagar-Sirpur forest areas in recent days have caused panic among the residents of the forest fringe villages of the district.
When contacted, District Forest Officer Neeraj Tibrewal said Hindu Drones have been deployed along the Telangana-Maharashtra border along with a separate team of forest department personnel to track tiger movement. “We have issued Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for the residents of the villages near the forest and distributed face masks to them as a safety precaution,” he said, adding, “Meetings have also been held with people around the forest area. Sensitize them on SOP.
published – December 19, 2024 at 08:03 am IST