Hyderabad: Not only saves big cats from hunters, wildlife authorities in the second largest tiger reserves in India in Telangana struggling to make them free plastic with tons of plastic items scattered in forest areas by tourists.
Fast vehicles also kill hundreds of animals every year as head of pilgrims to the city of Srisailam Temple while negotiating through Amrabad Tiger Reserve (ATR).
Facing by planting plastic threats, the authorities have now formed a plastic segregation and a bail center in ATTR …
Average, 500 to 2,300 kg of plastic, which includes plastic water bottles, chips, plastic glasses and plates filled with tourists in 60 km ATR in a week.
“We collect 1,000 kg of plastic every week from Jalan ATR,” said B Srinivas, Director of Field (Project Tiger), ATR.
He said that during the season the peak pilgrims they collected around 2,300 kg per week.
Plastic waste and others were collected by clothing cloth in the bag and left on the side of the road, which was picked up by the vehicle patrolling and brought to the center where it was separated and recycled.
“We are the first tiger reserve to set up a center like that.
We have binded with waste recycling in Hyderabad to dispose of plastic waste,” Srinivas added and said that the pet bottle was dumped with Rs 20 per kg.
In October, 53 animals were killed by accelerating vehicle ideas to change the mindset of people and ensure that they treated the wildlife area as a special area.
We want to reach the stage where there is no plastic thrown into the ATR, but it’s a difficult task, “he added.
Revealing statistics about Roadkills, Rohith Gopidi, forest division officers, Division Amrabad, said that on 53 October animals were killed by a vehicle driving, Up from 29 deaths in September this year.
“Reptiles, monkeys, and Langurs are mostly dead on the killing road.
Sambar, speckled deer and vulnerable species such as Rustyspots skinned cats are also killed by a fast vehicle in recent months, “he said.
Even though the speed limit was set at 30 KMPs in ATR, which has a core area of ​​2,166.37 Km square and is home to 24 Tiger, many vehicles looked traveling at high speed in tiger reserves that endanger the lives of wild animals.
During locking, almost all animals including tigers, leopards, deer and wild dogs, among others, are seen on the main road because there is no vehicle movement, which shows them Still considering the streets as part of their habitat, officials said Tiger reserves to graze for four to five months.
“We t Idaft has a problem in providing space to graze for local livestock.
However, outsiders will not be allowed to establish illegal camps, “Gopidi said.
Throwing light in illegal fishing, he said fishermen from Visakhapatnam, Kakinada pampered themselves in illegal fishing in ATR and added that the effort was made to stop them.