Tigers of the Eastern Ghats

[Sanju]

(02-17-2019, 11:35 AM)Rishi Wrote: 3 safari park like Gujarat's 5 lion safari parks?... or they'll start safari facilities at other parks, in which case, where?

To be honest, I'm confused too!

We have only two Zoo parks one in Visakhapatnam, other in Tirupati. In Tirupati already a safari park is there in zoo itself and Vizag don't have such facility. As far as I know, we (not Telangana, already separated)  never built separate safari parks before and we don't have them too.

(02-17-2019, 09:44 AM)Sanju Wrote: This big move has been seen as an initiative to promote tourism in the state. P Mallikarjuna Rao, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF) said that as per the plan, the safaris would be coming up in Kurnool, Visakhapatnam and Rajahmundry.

As per the information, I'm not figuring out what they are saying. If they say Kurnool, there is NSTR to facilitate Tiger Safari in the reserve to facilitate safari. In seshachalam, tiger conservation may build up eventually.

And in NSTR already Safari is available from Telangana side as far as I know but may not be from AP side. https://tripnetra.com/blog/nagarjunsagar...ve-safari/
Even they don't facilitate it, Safari is available all the time as people year round visit these following and on the way, they get tiger sightings same as safari but on their own vehicles:

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but in Vizag, there is no NP or Tiger reserve except Kambalakoda wildlife Sanctuary which I visited has only Leopards and Tiger had locally extinct long ago and it was developed for Eco-Tourism.

If they say Rajahmundry, of East Godavari dist, then PNP is there for that with tigers living there, but in very low number as we are least potent Indian state in the aspect of Conservation mainly Tigers even having biggest tiger reserve in the country with about 50-70 if I remember correctly with low density.

I don't think, they facilitate PNP and islet Hills with tiger gypsy safari coz most of it will be submerged after Godavari River's Polavaram Irrigation Dam mega project and only boating is available for now.

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So I think, based on this unclear data, they may going to build separate safari parks like in Gujarat and other states where safari is available in closed enclosure environments in vizag (already has a zoo but without safari park may be it'll be added to indira gandhi zoo), rajahmundry and kurnool (the forest district of AP).

Except NSTR, including seshachalam (total Nallamala of both states) and Papi, there is nill tiger presence. I mean nothing at all not even sporadic presence of tigers, I know coz I live here. All we have are leopards and sloth bears in rest of the WLS and protected area, in my district srikakulam, some chital deer and stray elephants from odisha based on seasons in seetampeta forest range (recently we invented a new way to avoid conflict with wild elephants coming near human dominated areas in seetampeta by chasing wild pachyderms with trained elephants into forests again). No tigers in other areas of the state except the above mentioned. Our govt and FD here are completely unable and uninterested in improving Conservation. Rampant Poaching is major crisis than habitat destruction here in AP. Reply