Tiger Reserves in India

[Rishi]

(07-24-2019, 09:07 AM)Ashutosh Wrote: Personally, southern states including Maharashtra should come up with a composite plan to make a wildlife corridor all along the Western Ghats into the Nilgiris and then into the adjoining Eastern ghats. This way a tiger could possibly move from Sahyadri in Maharashtra all the way to Mudumaai and set up territory traversing nearly 800 kilometres. Or even on the other coast at Srisailam. Lower karnataka already has a corridor between Nagarhole into Periyar. But, the fragmented parts in Hassan, Udupi and adjoining areas makes the “source sink model” a bit redundant.

The way thing are going, that may actually happen sooner than you think.

The eastern-western ghats' tigers are getting connected with Satyamangalam & Malai-Mahadeshwara becoming tiger reserves and AP's tigers moving south from Gundla Brahmeshwaram (refer to older post on this thread #15). Although the corridors in between will require consolidation, it's fairly doable.

As for Maharastra, back in 2016 they were thinking of linking Radhanagari sanctuary & Sahyadri tiger reserve, to boost their unstable western metapopulation with Goa's & Karnataka's tigers, by habitat development in Tillari region. I don't know its present status, or if anything came of it.

There's also a concept called the Sahyadri Corridor Project.

(05-19-2019, 08:05 AM)Rishi Wrote: After years of unconfirmed sighting & reports of tiger presence in Goa,  2013 saw a tigres camera-trapped in Mhadei Sanctuary of the tiny state sandwiched in between Maharastra & Karnataka. After which the presence of the same tigress was repeatedly captured on camera for successive years.

Now a tiger has finally been camera-trapped at the Bhagwan Mahavir National Park & Wildlife Sanctuary have come from Karnataka into Goa.

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A proposed tiger reserve, was approved by Goa state wildlife advisory board in 2017, by including core areas of Mhadei and Mahavir sanctuaries along with the Mollem national park. This can be an important key in establishing a successful Sahyadri-Konkan wildlife corridor along the length of the Western Ghat.

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To reduce conflict in the former & augment the later with breeding females, surplus tigers from Chandrapur area were also to be moved to Sahyadri that was once connected with central India to the north. Reply