Kanchanpur, April 9. The Kunda Sub-Division Forest Office has installed CCTV cameras to monitor tigers after they were spotted entering human settlements in the southern area of the district.

According to Assistant Forest Officer Dinesh Kumar Yadav, three CCTV cameras were installed in the Jamuna Community Forest area at Punarbash Municipality and nearby Thapa Chowk in Belauri Municipality.

“We installed CCTV cameras for monitoring the places where the wild cats were seen entering human settlements,” shared Yadav. The Forest Office will keep an eye on tiger movements in the areas where the CCTV cameras are installed for a week.

“If tigers are not spotted in those areas, we will install cameras in other places,” he added.

The installation of CCTV cameras comes after a 32-year-old woman from ward no. 10 of Punar Bash Municipality was killed in a tiger attack on March 24 while visiting the Dudhwa National Park in bordering India. A week later, an Indian woman was also killed in a tiger attack in an Indian village bordering Belauri village in Kanchanpur district, leaving the locals in those areas terrified.

Yadav informed that the National Trust for Nature Conservation supported the CCTV installation project. “Locals are terrorized due to tiger menace. Tigers do not stay in one place idly. We can determine whether tigers roam around those areas or not once we monitor those places through CCTV cameras for a week,” he noted.