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12.5.5 Cattle Grazing
Grass covers the lakebed and grazing starts once the water level begins to retreat.
The paucity of fodder drives more than 30,000 livestock into the lakebed. In many
villages Dalits are entrusted with the grazers’ job. They send their cattle or sheep
from each house at morning and ensure that they return in the evening. Cattle graze
Fig. 12.7b Black headed Ibis trapped by poachers are brought for sale at roadside market
Fig. 12.7a Showing poaching of some rare species (Darter, Pelican, Grey heron, Open bill stork,
Painted stork)
K. Silambarasan and A. Sundaramanickam
12.5.5 Cattle Grazing
Grass covers the lakebed and grazing starts once the water level begins to retreat.
The paucity of fodder drives more than 30,000 livestock into the lakebed. In many
villages Dalits are entrusted with the grazers’ job. They send their cattle or sheep
from each house at morning and ensure that they return in the evening. Cattle graze
Fig. 12.7b Black headed Ibis trapped by poachers are brought for sale at roadside market
Fig. 12.7a Showing poaching of some rare species (Darter, Pelican, Grey heron, Open bill stork,
Painted stork)
K. Silambarasan and A. Sundaramanickam