A team of 32 officials of Palamu Tiger Reserve (PTR) left by bus for a three- day study tour of India’s most well-managed tiger reserve at Kanha in Madhya Pradesh. Deputy Director South division PTR M K Mahaling flagged off the bus for Kanha Tiger Reserve.
The squad is to return on November 25. The squad has 30 newly recruited forest guards and two assistant conservator of forests (ACF) in S K Khes and Madanjeet Singh. The two ACFs come from each of the two divisions South and North.
The tour is to cost around Rs 1.70 lakh said sources. Mahaling said the squad will take lessons there in the management of grass land, protection of wild life, anti poaching measures and also to further strengthen the bond between man and wild life.
Sources said PTR has run into bad days for two most tragic episodes wherein one episode a jumbo was blasted to death while in other two tribal gunned down a tusker.
Kanha Tiger Reserve has a specialty in Boma Technique. Boma Technique is related to translocation of wild life from one place to another. Mahaling said we have brought in sambhars from Birsa Zoo and their translocation was a real challenge to both of us at the zoo and here too in PTR.
Boma Technique covers all the finer aspects of the translocation of wild life ranging from journey to food to shelter and protection.
A translocated wild life gets a new environs and its adjustment there is most important. One of the translocated sambhars in PTR died due to snake bite a loss the PTR officials mourned much said sources.
Sources said a group of 55 to 60 deer is also to be brought in from DVC in Chandrapura.
Kanha Tiger Reserve officials have done a good job in this translocation of wild life, said sources.