Remote-controlled traps in place to tackle wild boars

TAMIL NADU forest department, with the help of a private company, has developed a trap cage that will be operated with a remote, exclusively to capture wild boars that are damaging crops on farmlands and frequenting residential areas.

- S SENTHIL KUMAR @Coimbatore

The cage that can capture eight to ten wild boars was developed based on the direction and idea from Chief Conservator of Forests and Field Director of Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR) D Venkatesh to mitigate the wild boar intrusion in farmlands and residential areas in the forest boundaries within the Coimbatore Forest Division.

After capturing them in the trap cage, the animals will be shifted into a transfer cage which has also been developed by the team. They will be taken and kept in vehicles for easy transportation, and then the wild pigs will be released inside the forest.