Friday, August 21, 2009
NTCA teams to visit Tiger parks on verge of loosing their jewels
As per a TOI report today, NTCA has constituted various teams drawn from wildlife NGOs to visit tiger reserves showing signs of rapid decline. First reserve to get a visit will be Valmiki Reserve in Bihar which as per the report has lost more than 60% of big cats in the last couple of years. A recent post on this blog (http://planettiger.blogspot.com/2009/08/tiger-cubs-sighted-in-valimiki-tiger.html) had noted slopiness of state officials in ignoring to adhere to basic guidlines related to demarcation of core and buffer areas of the park. Given the poor track record of state govts in acting to save protected areas time is runing out before the park becomes another Siriska. Apart from Valimiki Palamu in Jharkhand, Manas in Assam and Indravati in Chhattisgarh, Dampa Tiger Reserve in Mizoram, Buxa Tiger Reserve in West Bengal, Namdapha Tiger Reserve in Arunachal Pradesh and Nagarjunsagar-Srisailam Tiger Reserve in Andhra Pradesh are the other reserves the teams are likely to visit. It may be noted that all these reserves have been on the NTCA radar for a while due to a whole host of problems ranging from naxalism to poor ground level protection. One hopes the NTCA visits will initiate a series of workable steps to stem the rapid decline of these forest areas.
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