Preventing conflict: Chief Conservator of Forest and Additional Director, Tamil Nadu Forest Academy, K.K. Kaushal, (second from right) along with senior Forest Department officers releasing the helpline number in Coimbatore on Saturday. | Photo Credit: S. Siva Saravananmore-inThe Forest Department on Saturday launched a helpline for people living along the fringes of forests to report the entry of wild animals into human habitations and prevent man-animal conflict. The Chief Conservator of Forest and the Additional Director of the Tamil Nadu Forest Academy, K.K. S. Ramasubramanian, Conservator of Forest, Coimbatore, stressed that conservation was not merely the job of the Forest Department, but everybody.

Source: The Hindu August 13, 2017 02:39 UTC