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Villagers Join Hand With Forest Dept. To Protect Wildlife
The Statesman Bhubaneswar
|March 08, 2025
The residents of villages lying on the fringes of Odisha's Debrigarh wildlife Sanctuary, which is a home to protected wild animals like cheetal, sambar deer, wild boar, Gaur, bear and leopard among other animals, have joined hands with the forest department to save the wildlife from electrocution.
The 2-kilometre zone (1km inside Sanctuary boundary & 1km outside Sanctuary boundary) has been declared "shock free and zero electrocution zone" in a joint initiative by Eco-Development Committees, 68 villages and Debrigarh sanctuary authorities, said Anshu Pragyan Das, Divisional Forest Officer, Hirakud Wildlife Division.
This story is from the March 08, 2025 edition of The Statesman Bhubaneswar.
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