Experts warn Odisha against project to fit radio collar on elephants
The Hindu
“The experiment failed in Chhattisgarh as they fell off within days”
As Odisha is in the process of fitting elephants with radio-collar to track their movement and prepare a strategy to minimise man-elephant conflict, environmentalists have urged the State government to learn from the Chhattisgarh experiment. The radio collars fitted on elephants in the State had fallen off within days.
The Wildlife Society of Orissa, an environmental pressure group, raised concerns about the effectiveness of the radio collars and their longevity.
In 2011, the Karnataka government announced that five botanical gardens will be developed on the lines of the Lalbagh Botanical Garden in Bengaluru across the State. But according to the latest developments, there will only be four such gardens as the Horticulture Department is most likely to drop the project that was supposed to come up in Chikkaballapura district.