Tiger Predation

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Hey All,

Here is the next (satirical) one of our “Are you listening ?” campaign. Please feel free to share !

Tiger reserves across India face immense biotic pressure from the resource dependent human populations residing both inside and on the periphery. These villages are primarily dependent on agriculture for their livelihood and their economy is supplemented by animal husbandry. While the villagers tend to graze their animals in the fallow agricultural lands most of the year, it attains ominous levels during the monsoons when the villagers enter deep into the forests to graze their livestock. It is like an army of livestock that enter the very fragile core areas and plunder the biomass.

It is imperative to mention, cattle grazing in Protected Areas has a cascading effect whereby it robs the ungulates of their food, forcing them to enter agricultural fields resulting in crop loss to farmers.

Image courtesy : Our good friend Trayambak Ojha.
Text courtesy : Our good friend Dr.PV Subramaniam.

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