The people of Irriyani, a remote village in the district adjoining forests, have taken up a novel project to solve the problem of man animal conflict.
Members of the Dhanashree self-help group in the village area planting saplings of fruit bearing trees to provide food to wild animals who had taken to raiding farms. Forest department and the forest protection council in the implimentation of the project named 'Vanaveedu'. Uncontrolled exploitation of forest lan d by human beings has created scarecity of food in the forest. The villagers have now realized teht the only solution to the problem is to provide food to the wild animals in their natural habitat.
(The Hindu, 20th August 2007)
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