Lookout towers have been put up inside Neyyar, Peppara, and Agasthyavanam forests to spot wild animals.
At 6 a.m. on all days, except Sunday, Bhagavan Kani, a forest tribal, clambers up a narrow bamboo ladder to get to a watch house atop a tall tree deep inside the Neyyar Wildlife Sanctuary to keep a look out for wild elephants.
Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/keeping-man-animal-conflict-bay
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/g-anand
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/hindu-thiruvananthapuram
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/neyyar
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/neyyar-sa
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/peppara-sa
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/people-animal-conflicts
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/tribals
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/elephant
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/wildlife
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/forests
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/kerala