PANAJI

Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has directed the State forest department to submit a detailed report on the total number of fruit-bearing trees planted in the forest areas, status on phasing out of Australian acacia trees and number of water holes created for wildlife to reduce the human-animal conflict.

Sawant, who is also the chairman of State Board of Wildlife (SBWL), has also instructed the Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (PCCF) to call for a joint meeting of environmentalists, wildlife conservationists and members of SBWL to discuss strategies to stop the man-animal conflicts. The directions were issued during the SBWL meeting, held earlier this month.

The State government had in 2021 announced its plan to create 100 new water bodies and to plant five lakh fruit-bearing t

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