A group of tourists who visited the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), recently was shocked to see spotted deer feeding at a small garbage dump, where plastic was also thrown. There are strict restrictions on plastic inside SGNP, but some tourists still take plastic bottles etc. Wildlife experts feel that management of garbage needs to be done in a proper way, so that plastic doesn't pose a threat to wild animals.

The tourists who saw the deer feed on garbage took some pictures of the same and wanted to bring it to the notice of authorities. On the Internet, they came across NGO RAWW which has been helping the forest department in rescuing wild animals, and highlighting issues related to wildlife. The tourists informed RAWW about what they had seen, gave its officials the photographs and requested them to see that the FD takes immediate action to stop such incidents.