A Project To Give Forestland Back to Animals

Voices for Asian Elephants has bought 4 acres of private land abutting forest in Nilambur and is rewilding it to create a safe corridor for elephants in the area Even as the Kerala government takes several measures to attract foreign investment, stakeholders face many difficulties in executing even environment-friendly projects. Sangita Iyer, founder, Voices for Asian Elephants, an organisation working for the conservation of wild elephant corridors and restoration of their habitats, shares her experience in buying four acres of land in the State for a project to ease human-elephant conflict and foster peaceful co-existence between people and wild animals. She highlights the bureaucratic hurdles involved and the smear campaigns the organisation had to face. Read the full article on https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/a-project-to-give-forestland-back-to-animals/article68142973.ece