Archive · 3 Oct 2026
Students and Teachers Explore Kawal During Wildlife Week
During National Wildlife Week, forest officials invited students and other visitors to learn about nature.
At Kawal Tiger Reserve, people took a four-kilometre walk and learned about trees, birds and animals.
Officials explained how forests, grasslands and water help living things.
Visitors saw several kinds of birds and signs left by wild animals.
They also visited a centre with wildlife photographs.
In another area, students joined a rally to learn why forests and wildlife should be protected.
Kawal Tiger Reserve held wildlife-awareness programmes during National Wildlife Week, October 2–8.
Officials led visitors on a four-kilometre nature walk from Gondguda Safari Gate to Bison Kunta.
Jannaram DFO M. Rammohan discussed local trees, their medicinal qualities, and the roles of dead trees, grasslands and water bodies.
Thirty MSc Botany students from Satavahana University visited with their department head and four faculty members.
In Penchikalpet, forest officials and students held a rally from Ellur to Elkapalli to raise awareness about forests and wildlife.
- Who
- Kawal Tiger Reserve officials, students, teachers and other visitors; forest officials and school students in Penchikalpet.
- What
- Wildlife-awareness programmes, a four-kilometre nature walk and a student rally were held.
- When
- During National Wildlife Week, October 2–8; the university group visited on Saturday.
- Where
- Kawal Tiger Reserve, including the route from Gondguda Safari Gate to Bison Kunta, and Penchikalpet in Kagaznagar forest division.
- Why
- To raise awareness about forests, wildlife, biodiversity and conservation.
- National Wildlife Week
- October 2–8
- Nature walk distance
- Four kilometres, from Gondguda Safari Gate to Bison Kunta
- University visitors
- 30 MSc Botany students from Satavahana University, accompanied by their head of department and four faculty members
- Birds sighted
- Included grey hornbill, rose-ringed parakeet, plum-headed parakeet, collared dove, spotted dove, grey-headed barbet, brown-capped woodpecker, cormorant and blue-tailed bee-eater
- Additional wildlife signs
- Visitors found pugmarks and scat of wild animals
- Penchikalpet rally
- School students and forest officials walked from Ellur to Elkapalli village