Dindori: In a unique community-led conservation drive, the Madhya Pradesh forest department is incentivising local villagers to collect Sal borer beetles, offering a bounty of Rs 2 per pest, to combat a pest outbreak threatening vast stretches of Sal forests in Dindori district.
The campaign has drawn children, women and elderly villagers, who are venturing into forests, hunting the pests, stringing together garlands of 100 severed heads and depositing them at designated collection centres for payment.
