Poaching of wild animals such as sambhur, mouse deer, wild boar, giant squirrel and purple-faced leaf monkey is done on a small scale. Occasionally leopards are killed in traps set for these animals. These trap-guns also create serious hazards to researchers and other explorers.

                        Traditionally, chena cultivation is practised mainly along the southern boundary of the Reserve. Meanwhile camping in convenient sites for kitul tapping often leads to the short-term clearing of small areas and the establishment in anthropogenic plant communities, poaching, illegal timber and rattan extraction and felling of favoured firewood species in the vicinity.