The Tamilnadu Forest Department has taken up mass removal of invasive species in the Ulandy range in the core area of the Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR).
Also, they planned to plant saplings of native trees.
The works are implemented under the Restoration of Degraded Forests Landscape Project with financial assistance from the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD).
Under the project, for which NABARD has given a loan of ₹457 crore, the government aims at restoring 33,290 hectares of degraded forest lands in the State in five years.
A total of 270 hectares of land is to be restored in all forest ranges of the ATR.