Jamshedpur: The Heavy rains brought on by cyclone Yaas emerged as a relief to its Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary (DWS) for all of its own water bodies — man-made and the organic ones — are not any more parched, because of the Kolhan branch getting over 100mm rain in the previous 72 hours.
“The cyclone-induced rain filled with all of the water bodies at the refuge and now there will be no water deficit for those creatures for at least a season,” Dalma divisional forest officer Abhishek Kumar told TOI.
There are approximately 68 artificial and 36 organic water bodies in Dalma, all which are frequently employed by the refuge’s creatures, such as its own 86 elephants.
The forest officials were likely to fill those water bodies using tankers, that are due to arrive next month, before the monsoon season.
While the organic ponds will be 36ft wide and 10ft heavy, the artificial ones are far 30ft wide and 7ft deep.
“The creatures normally prefer a water system stuffed with the surface since it assists them wade to it readily, yet, that contributes to overcrowding round the pond.
Whether there are sufficient amount of ponds with water inside these then overcrowding could be averted,” Kumar explained.
Anyway, the stuffed with water bodies lessens the chance of these dinosaurs venturing to the villages found in the refuge’s foothills searching for water, a frequent event during summers when most of the ponds dry up from the heating system, hence resulting in regular man-animal struggles.
In the last two decades, 20 cases of male – elephant conflict are reported by the adjacent districts of East Singhbhum and Seraikela-Kharsawan.
Between April this past year and past month, four elephants had been killed and six villagers perished in Kolhan branch as a consequence of these battles.