Mysore/Mysuru: Bamboo groves serve as the best microcosms of forest life and growing bamboo inside the reserve forests will prevent wild elephants from straying into human habitations in search of food, opined Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha.
He was addressing a meeting of District Development Coordination and Monitoring Committee (DISHA) at Zilla Panchayat Hall in the city yesterday and asked the Forest Department staff to grow bamboo and other grass abundantly in the reserve forests and also Tiger Reserves in Bandipur and Nagarahole.
