Kerala: Crash guard rope to prevent jumbo intrusion

KOTTAYAM: The Mankulam forest division is planning to introduce a new method to prevent the intrusion of wild elephants to the human inhabited areas. As per the 'crash guard rope fencing' project, iron ropes will be connected with galvanized steel rods which will be cemented on the floor at height of three metres on the 1.3 kilometers stretch from Anakulam to Valiyaparakutty where the elephant threat is most prevalent.

"If the new method is found effective, it will be introduced in other places where the elephant intrusion is a simmering threat," Mankulam DFO BN Nagaraj told DC. The tender procedures will be completed within some time and the construction of the fence will complete by the coming November. The forest department took to the new method after the traditional fencing methods including the trenches and solar-powered fencing are found less effective.

Elephants which are struck by the electric current from the solar fencing used to destroy it by hitting with big wooden pieces and destroying it. e Church had decided to appoint a committee to conduct discussions with the Jacobite section for seeking the possibility of ' the unification' of the Orthodox and Jacobite factions on the basis of the SC verdict.