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KOLKATA: West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose has submitted a report to the Central Government containing 14 recommendations to help curb the increasing incidence of wildlife attacks and human cruelty in West Bengal and Kerala. Ananda Bose, a former IAS officer, was also the head of the Wildlife Conservation Department.

The main recommendation submitted by Ananda Bose is that carrying capacity studies should be carried out urgently in forest areas that are prone to wildlife attacks. Each forest area has a limit to the number of wildlife it can accommodate. When this limit is exceeded, the animals will start coming out of the forest. In that case, there are many ways to sustainably deploy over-the-limit wildlife within the forest itself. Such ways should be adopted as soon as possible, Ananda Bose says in his report.

Other key recommendations to help eliminate and mitigate human-wildlife conflict are: