Jaipur: Amid the official reports of half a dozen missing tigers and relocation of tigers in Sariska failing to produce any tiger cub, the ministry of environment and forest in its latest report on effectiveness of tiger reserve management has given satisfactory rating to the tiger reserves in Rajasthan.
From June 2010 to July 2011, the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) in partnership with the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) undertook an independent Management Effectiveness Evaluation (MEE) of all 39 tiger reserves in the country in which the management of Ranthambhore tiger reserve has been categorised as good. Sariska has earned satisfactory remarks which have recently lost all the tigers but in the same category Panna tiger reserve in Madhya Pradesh has been categorised as very good.
The MEE is the assessment of how well protected areas, such as national parks, wildlife sanctuaries, conservation reserves, community reserves and tiger reserves are being managed and their effectiveness in conserving the flora and fauna.
"India has not only independently assessed the effectiveness of 28 tiger reserves in 2005-2006, but has taken this process forward, by extending this evaluation in 2010-11 to all 39 tiger reserves. The outcomes of this assessment are encouraging and despite all odds, our park managers and frontline staff are putting up valiant efforts to conserve our natural heritage," Jayanthi Natarajan, Union minister for environment and forest said in the forward of the report released last week.
But the next assessment of the tiger management in the country is going to be more hi- tech.
The NTCA in collaboration with WII and Zoological Society of London (ZSL) has developed a 'Monitoring System for Tigers- Intensive Patrolling and Ecological Status' (MST-IPES) for managers to assess the status of protection, ecological and biotic pressures and when adaptive management is necessary.
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