CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Tamil Nadu: Anamalai Tiger Reserve launched ‘jumbo trails’ in Coimbatore. The Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR) has launched ‘jumbo trails’ at Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, a programme aimed to educate visitors to the tiger reserve about elephants, the flora, and fauna of ATR.

Detailed explanation-2: -The ranges found in this reserve include Amaravathi and Udumalpet falling in Thiruppur Division and Pollachi, Ulandy, Valparai and Manamboli in Pollachi Division. Around 2500 species of angiosperms are found in the Anamalai Tiger Reserve, with several species of Balsam, Crotalaria, Orchids and Kurinchi.

Detailed explanation-3: -Notes: The Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR) has launched an elephant adoption programme, under which non-governmental organisations, institutions, trusts or individuals can sponsor the expenses of Forest Department’s camp elephants.

Detailed explanation-4: -travel - The Kozhikamuthi Elephant Camp, inside Anamalai Tiger Reserve in Tamil Nadu, houses 26 elephants, trained by mahouts of local Malasar tribe - Telegraph India.

Detailed explanation-5: -In 1855, this area came under sustainable forest management for teak plantations by the pioneering efforts Douglas Hamilton and H. F. Cleghorn of the new Tamil Nadu Forest Department. In the early 1900s, protection of the Karian shola was also ensured. The area was notified as Anaimalai Wildlife Sanctuary in 1974.