Summary:
Mavala water tank is located close to Mavala village, about 6 km from Adilabad town. “We procured 16 camera traps and set them up close to the Mavala water tank on a hunch,” he recalled of the effort which immediately fetched result. Though the forests are highly depleted now, some of the wild animals seem to have miraculously survived the onslaught of human interference over these years as found by the forest department recently. more-inUntil the 1960s, the district headquarter town, Adilabad, was surrounded by dense forest on the south and east which was home to many species of wild animals including tigers. Though Mavala tank itself has been the prime source of water for the animals the artificially created water holes will provide more relief to animals as the former has a lot of human activity in and around it during day time..