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In what groups we can divide the Bengal Tiger?

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Sahyadri Tiger Reserve in line for tiger relocation
Apr 9, 2018


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Sahyadri Tiger Reserve (STR), located at the northern part of Western Ghats range, is next in line for India's next tiger reintroduction, with plans to re-stock it with big cats from other habitats as a measure for tiger recovery in the STR. Once completed, this will be the first such tiger relocation in the wild within Maharashtra.

The 1,165.56 sq km STR covers the Koyna Wildlife Sanctuary and Chandoli National Park, including a 600.12 sq km core and 565.45 sq km buffer in SataraSangliKolhapur and a satelite in Ratnagiri districts. The 2014 tiger census recorded the presence of 5-7 tigers.

Officials admitted that they lacked resident, breeding cats due to a break in the reserve's connectivity to habitats like Karnataka's Kali Tiger Reserve by activities like bauxite mining, which has long-term consequences. This year's tiger estimation has found only indirect evidences like scats, sans direct sightings.

The team includes officials from the NTCA, Wildlife Institute of India (WII) and Maharashtra forest department. It will evaluate the feasibility of ecologically unsustainable projects in the landscape like mining and windmills, which affect movements of carnivores from source populations down south and suggest measures for strengthening tiger corridors.


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The NTCA said considering the long-term conservation of tigers in the landscape, "it is imperative to constitute a team for suggesting measures for tiger recovery."
"Tigers may be relocated from populations of Eastern Maharashtra like Vidarbha & Chandrapur where man-animal conflict is increasing due to habitat pressures and rising tiger numbers," a senior forest department official told DNA, adding this could be done in a year.

"We plan to release two pairs of tigers, namely two females and one male each, at Koyna and Chandoli
Healthy ungulates from the Sagareshwar Wildlife Sanctuary, Sanjay Gandhi National Park and the Katraj Animal Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre can be released grid-wise to enhance herbivore numbers," he added.

These tigers will be acclimatized at Sagareshwar in Sangli to overcome habitat challenges before being released in to the wild. "The STR's terrain is hilly and different from the Central Indian landscape, but tigers in the two areas, especially northern Western Ghats, have genetic similarities!"
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RE: In what groups we can divide the Bengal Tiger? - Rishi - 04-09-2018, 02:44 PM



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