The Divisional Forest Office and the Community Forest Users Group, Bardiya, have started installing wire mesh along the borders of forest areas to reduce human-wildlife conflict and prevent encroachment.
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The Division Forest Office and the Community Forest Users Group, Bardiya, have started installing wire mesh on the borders of the forest area to reduce human-wildlife conflict and prevent encroachment. The Division Forest Office, Bardiya, has stated that wire mesh has been installed on 40 km of forest area so far.
Fences have been installed in forest areas where encroachments have been removed, including Machad and Orali Bazaar. The forest area where wire mesh has been installed is becoming safer, according to the Forest Office. Wire mesh has been installed in the forest areas of Madhuvan, Barbardia and other municipalities.
Wire mesh has been installed in the ten-meter area where wild animals coming from the Katarniaghat reserve connected to India in Madhuvan-3 have entered the settlement and caused damage to property. Prakash Chaudhary, a farmer from Dhanaura, Madhuvan-3, said that after the installation of wire mesh, the terror of wild animals has decreased. In the past, wild animals have caused human losses and destroyed crops in this area, he said.
Eleven people have been killed by leopards, tigers and elephants that have come out of the community forest in the past year. Nine people have been killed by leopards and one by tiger and one by elephant attacks. Wild animals have been damaging not only humans but also the crops planted by farmers every year. Ramshankar Tharu of Madhuvan-3 said that after the installation of the wire mesh, the residents of Madhuvan Municipality-3 felt safer from wild animals.
‘The wire mesh installed at the Nepal-India border has stopped wild animals including leopards and wild boars from entering Nepal from the Indian border,’ he said. ‘This has not caused any damage to humans, animals or crops.’
A wire mesh has also been installed in the forest area in Madhuban-5. The main purpose of installing the wire mesh is to reduce human and wildlife encroachment, said Krishna Gurung, chairperson of Triveni Community Forest. ‘This prevents wildlife from entering the settlement,’ she said, ‘in addition, it prevents forest encroachment, livestock and crops from being damaged.’
A wire mesh has been installed between the forest and the settlement to reduce human-wildlife conflict. Vijay Raj Subedi, head of the Division Forest Office, Bardiya, said that the forest administration has instructed to install it in other community forests as more than 40 kilometers of wire mesh have already been installed. He said that the wire mesh will also prevent forest encroachment.
