Chamrajanagar: Wild elephant attack kills farmer
Chamarajanagar: During the early hours around 2.30 am on Thursday, a farmer was reportedly killed in a wild elephant attack near Kubbepur at Gundlupete Taluk in the district.
Reportedly, a wild elephant had gone on a rampage in villages close to the Bandipur vicinity resulting in the death of a Shivapur farmer identified as Bella Shetty (65). The farmer and his son were guarding the harvest in their field when the wild elephant attacked the duo, it is learned.
The Forest Department’s officer from the G.S. Hills jurisdiction, Naveen Kumar visited the incident site and conducted an inquiry.
Reportedly, overwhelmed and exhausted over the wild elephant attacks, the farmers had demonstrated a protest against the Forest Department officials during the previous week.
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Formulate model SOP for trekking safety in Karnataka: Minister Khandre tells officials
Bengaluru (PTI): Karnataka Minister for Forest, Ecology and Environment Eshwar Khandre has instructed authorities to formulate a standard operating procedure (SOP) for trekking safety, intended to serve as a national model.
The Minister issued the instruction in writing to the chief wildlife warden in the wake of the disappearance of a woman from Kerala in the dense Tadiandamol forest, and the search for a minor girl in Chandradrona hills, his office said in a release on Thursday.
Like the ‘e-Gastu’ app already developed by the Forest Department and the ‘MStripes’ app used in tiger reserves, if a similar kind of app is temporarily installed on the mobile phones of trekkers during the trek, it will be easier to track those who go astray, hence the Forest Minister has directed to take steps to develop the app and provide group insurance to trekkers, it said.
In addition, Khandre has suggested that nature guides should be equipped with wireless communication sets and they should be held accountable for safety and coordination of trekking groups under their supervision, it added.
