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| Patrolling Staff Busy to Track Rhino |
It is interesting to write about kitchen
and cooking practices of forest guards deep inside the forest. Usually, they
prepare traditional mud stoves for cooking. They used fire wood as fuel. Sometime
dry leaves, dry grasses also used as kitchen fuel. They used minimum utensils
and storage items. Each one of camp member used their effort to collect fire wood for their kitchen. Fire wood carried their own or sometimes they used camped elephant to pull fire wood to their camp. During summer it is most difficult to collect firewood so they collected entire stocks of fire wood in the dry season.
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| A Forest Guard Prepare his meal |
They purchased rations weekly basis. One or two person moved
outside from the camp with elephant or bicycle and purchased necessary
items for all of them. Sometime they collected wild vegetables, leaves to cook. Sometime they catches fish nearby river or streams. But this is not
regular practice. Almost all forest camps cook meat every Sunday. They buy
meat from Sunday weekly market. Each member of camp helped each other on
cooking. However each camp selected their own head cook for
regular cooking practices. Almost all anti-poaching camps have small kitchen garden for seasonal vegetables.
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| Hot water Kettle in front of mud strove |
I will write many more interesting things
on Forest Guards life near future. But kitchen is still a rudimentary practice.
For better patrolling inside jungle this practice has to improve. Look forward for
your kind response.
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