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Community-based initiative for Hornbills
May 29 , 2023
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- A community-based conservation initiative, involving the Kadar tribal community, has restored the dwindling hornbill population.
- The Hornbill nest tree monitoring programme was started in 2005.
- It has objected to address the declining hornbill population and restore their vanishing nesting habitat.
- It has involved the Kadars, an indigenous community, in the Vazhachal forest division.
- The programme had technical support of the Western Ghats Hornbill Foundation for the conservation processes.
- Kadar, small tribe of southern India, are residing along the hilly border between Cochin in Kerala and Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu.
- Kadar live in the forests and do not practice agriculture.
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