Tiger Reserves in India

[Ashutosh]

There is a competition going around amongst the wildlife officials of the country to submit the stupidest and most idiotic proposals for management of man-animal conflicts.

Maharashtra has 310 tigers as per the 2018 census of which 160 live in Chandrapur district (also the area where tigress Avni was killed in 2018). The man-animal conflict is bad in this area as 24 people were killed in 2019 and 11 have been killed this year.

So, the Maharashtra Principal Chief Conservator of forest (wildlife), Nitin Kakodkar has come up with a solution. If you thought the Pilibhit tiger reserve’s ideas were shocking, we have someone who can top that. This person wants to translocate 50 tigers into zoos and safari park.

“These tigers can be removed from there in a phased manner and put in other wildlife areas, rescue centres or tiger safaris. I have written to Nagpur’s Gorewada Rescue Centre to augment its capacity to hold more tigers and I have also asked Chandrapur and Yavatmal Chief Conservators of Forest to explore the possibility of setting up tiger safaris,” he added. “The man-tiger conflict is only going to grow further with Chandrapur having as many as 160 tigers. It can’t hold such a big population without their coming in conflict with humans”.

“The idea is to pick up non-problem tigers, which shouldn’t be such a problem.”

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/proposal-to-translocate-chandrapur-tigers-cannot-be-put-in-zoos-safaris-rescue-centres-say-experts-6401347/


PS: Who appoints these people to such posts! Reply