The Gudalur forest division has undertaken repair and maintenance of check dams and percolation pits to reduce negative human-elephant interactions in the region.
According to officials, funds from the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) were used for the construction of water storage structures inside the reserved forests across Gudalur division.
District Forest Officer (Gudalur division), Kommu Omkaram, had pro-actively worked to get the structures built, so that animals, primarily elephants would not stray out from the highly fragmented forests of Gudalur into the human settlements in search of water.
