Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve’s strategy to prevent poachers from neighbouring State

Officials of the Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve (STR) in Erode district of Tamil Nadu are in the process of preparing a problem profile for each range.
At present, the STR has five Ranges – Bhavani Sagar, Hasanoor, Sathyamangalam, Thalavadi, T.N. Palayam. Of the five ranges, three are sharing the inter-State border with Karnataka, where the issues relating to poaching have to be monitored and controlled.