Eight-year-old boy killed by tiger in Karnataka’s Kodagu

An eight-year-old boy was killed in a tiger attack in Belluru village of Kodagu district.  The Forest Department team has tracked the animal to a sacred grove or devara kaadu.

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021

Devara Kaadu (Sacred Forest) is a small forest like grove marked as the adobe of the local deities.

Coorg has many hundred such sacred groves scattered all over the region.

Some of them are sprawling mini forests with many hundred acres of span, while the rest are of smaller scales anything from an acre upwards.

As these areas are considered sacred, the groves are left untouched. The trees and never pruned, no paths are cut into the groves, not even the fallen trees, leaves or twigs are cleared.

Inside the Devara Kaadu there are shrines dedicated to various deities.