RIGHT OF PASSAGE FOR WILD ANIMAL OR MAN- WHO HOLDS PRECEDENCE! Roads were made for journeys and not destinations - Confucius This blog article has been dedicated to the dumb wild denizens to coincide with this year’s World Wildlife Day, the 3 rd March Prelude Recently, I was driving along the highway connecting Chengalput and Tiruporur and then on to the Rajiv Gandhi IT Expressway aka Old Mahabalipuram Road (OMR). Three Reserve Forests (RF) are bisected by the 21 km road stretch in between these two satellite towns of the megapolitan Chennai. Vegetated terrain in each of this fragmented forest runs over a few hundred metres to a little over a few kilometers in length. Though not magnificent natural greenscapes or highlands that could imitate the lofty jungles of the Western Ghats or the Himalayas, these forest blocks are the last vestiges of nature, left behind by man close to a mega-city and tier-II towns- thanks to the forest laws of the country. This road is pr
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