Environmental organisations are exerting pressure on the government to close all ecotourism centres in Wayanad till the monsoon season to mitigate human-wildlife conflict.
Addressing the media here on Wednesday, N. Badusha, president, Wayanad Prakruthi Samrakshana Samiti, said the ecotourism centres of the Forest department were one of the major reasons for the accelerating human-wildlife conflict in the district. Hence, suchcentres should be closed till the advent of the monsoon, he added.
The centres should be opened only after a study by an expert team, and watchers of the ecotourism centres should be deployed to keep forest fire at bay during summer, he said.
