kochi a comprehensive report on measures to address mananimal conflicts by a team of forest department officials suggests catching monkeys and wild boars using traps in residential and farmlands where their menace is high the report will be presented before forest minister a k saseendran on wednesdaywhile monkeys will be caught and sterilized before being shifted to a shelter just like the ones set up in new delhi the report will suggest culling of wild boars caught in the traps to address their rising menace the special strategy for addressing monkey and wild boar menace is one of the eight suggestions put forward to bring down the rising mananimal conflicts in the state sources said one of them is setting up barriers depending on sitespecific situation measures to resolve conflicts will include sms alerts radio collaring of problematic animals translocation of problematic animals among others strengthening infrastructure and human resources is another suggestion constituting new 24 rapid response teams to be deployed in each division conflict management teams will be constituted at range level and rs 5 lakh will be utilized to buy kits containing equipment to scare away animalscrop compensation medical insurance and life insurance of staff will also be suggested currently crop compensation is given by the forest department after the agriculture department fixes the amount of damage the report will suggest that the agriculture department should distribute the compensation by giving them fundsfor maintenance of infrastructure the work should be entrusted with nregs it will also suggest participation of other departments to address conflict with elephants lsgds should also allocate funds for addressing conflicts in their areascurrently monkey menace is limited to wayanad and kozhikode districts but it will spread fast to other areas also we will provide food to the monkeys in the shelters for wild boars which are 2km away from the forest limits we will catch them with traps no shooting of wild boars will be allowed in places close to forests subsidy will be given to farmers to erect fences around their farmlands lsgds should collaborate with it said a forest official who was part of the team preparing the reportthe report will also include locallyavailable containment measures being successfully employed by farmers in order to promote it however experts are not happy with the suggestion of the department to cull wild boars even as they admit that mananimal conflicts are rising in the statethe absentee landlords who are no longer actively managing the land have increased in the state animals move into the lands which remain virgin culling wild boars is the easiest option which is a drastic step it is fine in areas where it is highly problematic but once you open up culling as an option demand will also rise to cull all other animals including elephants we should think of permanent site and climatespecific solutions to manage the issue there should be a change in the attitude of people too said professor santhosh kumar a v department of forest