Tuesday, September 15, 2015


A Nature Awareness Camp was organized at Kothalguri tiniali, Nagaon, where villagers from the Human-Elephant Conflict affected belt along the Karbi foothills were organized into groups to deal with increasing instances of elephant intrusions into human settlements and cropfields. Altogether 10 large flashlights, 18 high -powered torches and hornpipe (pepa) instruments were distributed among the 10 groups of 15 members each organized from the represented villages. The flashlights and torches will help chase out the intruding herds and the hornpipes will aid the quick mobilization of the group once an incident of intrusion is detected. These groups were organized in the intense HEC affected villages of Thekera Entigaon, Mezigaon, Jharugaon, Baanhkucha gaon, Kothalguri, Beygaon in the presence of the respective gaonburhas. A Captain was selected from each group to hand over the HEC mitigation aid materials that were supported by the TINA Grant for Dulu Bora, who also shared his experiences in dealing with elephant intrusion. The villagers resolved to install Early Warning Systems developed by GGNO and participate in elephant fodder plantation drives to improve the degraded Karbi foothills elephant habitat

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