The Forest department will prepare a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to prevent incidents like the one in which three persons were gored to death by gaurs in Kottayam and Kollam, Forest Minister A.K. Saseendran has said.
The SOP would be prepared in three days by a team headed by the Chief Wildlife Warden, the Minister said on Monday. It would focus on pre-empting human-wildlife conflict instead of reacting to them. The Minister said a 24x7 toll free number had been introduced to alert Forest officials about wild animals entering human habitat.
Rapid Response Teams (RRT) of the Forest department would be provided with modern equipment and deployed in more hotspots of human-wildlife conflict across the State. The Minister said efforts were on to activate Vana Samrakshana Samithis and Jana Jagrata Samithis in the hotspots.
