MYSORE: The Forest Department plans to install chips in valuable trees to prevent their smuggling. Officials made this suggestion to Forest Minister C P Yogeshwar, who took serious note of two reports in the Express (August 29 and September 7) headlined Poaching thrives in Mysore as locals game for meat and Greens cry foul as dept blames jumbos for uprooted sandalwood trees.“I saw the reports and asked officials about the racket where poachers and hunters target wild animals and make door deliveries of the meat to villages. Officials say they have arrested three people,” Yogeshwar said. He said he would look into the removal of 22 sandalwood trees from the Rajiv Gandhi National Park in Nagarahole, adding, “I don’t know why PCCF B K Singh allowed shifting of 23 sandalwood trees against a request for just 22. I will look into this matter.” He said an Elephant Task Force would be formed to check man-elephant conflict. An official later said that the chip technology can be used to track elephants’ movements too.
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