A standard visitor into TVS Motor’s Hosur unit will observe the usual scooter manufacturing hub.
However, the direction has made a woods on 50 acres for countless birds, many reptiles and compact mammals such as the slender loris.
Neither the motion of people nor sound from the mill has resisted the wildlife to go from their’refuge’ which has taken over 15 years to make and is currently a green lung, say those involved.
TVS Motor vice-president (civil) P Venkatesan advised TOI they started by installing rainwater harvesting structures in the region.
Then, for over 15 decades,”we’ve got on a typical implanted nearly 2,500 saplings each year,” he explained.
The woods now has over 125 species of birds, 15 species of creatures, 15 species of mammals, six species of lizards, two species of turtles along with 13 species of amphibians amongst others.
Preston Ahimaz, woods advisor for the organization, stated an yearly census has been conducted along with camera traps installed in select places.
At least 11 important ponds and percolation ponds make sure that the wildlife particularly water birds like painted storks, pelicans and darters do not go thirsty.
A butterfly garden is an additional attraction, Preston explained.
What started as a Shrimp habitat is currently a microhabitat using the planting of numerous indigenous species of trees.
Trees bearing fruits like jamun, magizham, fig, cherry, badam (almonds), amla, ficus, guava, athi, kalakai and elanthai, many of them seasonalare a feast for birds like rose-ringed parakeets that make to feed through the calendar year, ” he explained.
Camera traps assist the business learn about a few rare wildlife species such as rusty-spotted cat, jungle cat and the rock python.
The forest is protected, without the individual not associated with the business or its affiliates let indoors.
The business also conducts regular awareness programmes for kids in the neighboring villages, ” he added.
The corporation’s plants at Mysuru and Himachal Pradesh have comparable wooded places, he added.