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NAGAON: At Rangbeng in the Doboka reserve forest, a group of wild elephants on Friday night devastated a sizable portion of a side-specific plantation under the CAMPA scheme, encompassing more than three hectares of land.
According to sources of forest department, the herd of wild elephants, consisting of twenty wild elephants entered into the plantation site and destroyed almost all plants in three hectares of forest land in Nagaon district portion of the reserve forest under Kathiatoli forest range.
The plantation drive was carried out under CAMPA scheme 2023-24 and the plantation was completed in last July by the officials concerned of Kathiatoli forest range as well as Nagaon Forest Division, sources said, adding that on being informed, the range officer as well as other forest personnel rushed to the plantation site at night itself and somehow they managed to send the herd of the wild elephants back towards dense forest of the reserve.
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