Your leisure trip to Goa will soon have an added advantage — tracking wild tigers. Over 35 tigers have been found residing in Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary in north Goa, about 60 to 90 kms from hot tourism hot spot beaches such as Anjum, Bombolin and Colva. Goa was not a traditional
home for tigers but in the last few years, tigers from neighbouring Bimgad and Anshi Dandeli tiger reserves in Karnataka had visited forests areas in Sattari Taluk of north Goa because of biotic pressures.
"There is evidence to show that tigers in Goa are not merely transient animals and but are resident population as," Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh said.
Mhadei sanctuary is a contiguous tiger landscape with tiger areas in Karnataka.
In the recent few years, tiger numbers have increased in the landscape in Western Ghats pushing the tigers to look for new habitats.
"Tigers can travel long distances to find their home base and it has also happened in case of Goa," said an official of the National Tiger Conservation Authority.
The Dehraduun-based Wildlife Institute of India has spotted 35 tigers in Mhadei, situated in Sattauri Taluk of north Goa and said the sanctuary has a good habitat for maintaining a stable tiger population.
Ramesh, in a letter to Goa chief minister Digambar Kamat said there was considerable support for the creation of a tiger reserve and wildlife conservation. "By declaring Mhadei wildlife sanctuary as a tiger reserve, we could also ensure the long-term protection of bio-diversity rich areas," he said.
The state government has been asked to submit a proposal to declare the wildlife sanctuary, which has been so far out of bounds for tourists, as a tiger reserve.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/Goa-new-home-for-tigers/Article1-716511.aspx
Monday, July 4, 2011
Tiger reserve water bodies full to the brim TNN
DALTONGANJ: Wildlife in the Palamu Tiger Reserve (PTR) can now enjoy water sport.
The good monsoon after more than three years has helped fill up the water bodies at Madhu Chuan, Bouliyya and Noohahee, inundating the PTR.
Elephants of the reserve are enjoying a "deluxe bath", said a tracker as there is sufficient water for them in the ponds. Elephants use more water for bath than any other wild animal.
The newly built 16 water turfs are also friendly to the wildlife. PTR field director S E H Kazmi said there were water turfs built in the past too, but its design was not friendly to wild animal because of its structure.
"This time the department has constructed 16 water turfs in the design of a plate, where the surface is coarse to prevent fall of any wildlife," said Kazmi. The field director is hopeful that these water will sustain this reserve in the coming summer also.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ranchi/Tiger-reserve-water-bodies-full-to-the-brim/articleshow/9091260.cms
The good monsoon after more than three years has helped fill up the water bodies at Madhu Chuan, Bouliyya and Noohahee, inundating the PTR.
Elephants of the reserve are enjoying a "deluxe bath", said a tracker as there is sufficient water for them in the ponds. Elephants use more water for bath than any other wild animal.
The newly built 16 water turfs are also friendly to the wildlife. PTR field director S E H Kazmi said there were water turfs built in the past too, but its design was not friendly to wild animal because of its structure.
"This time the department has constructed 16 water turfs in the design of a plate, where the surface is coarse to prevent fall of any wildlife," said Kazmi. The field director is hopeful that these water will sustain this reserve in the coming summer also.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ranchi/Tiger-reserve-water-bodies-full-to-the-brim/articleshow/9091260.cms
Slot for N-E in tiger body
Guwahati, July 3: The Northeast has finally got a voice in the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), the apex body of tiger conservation in the country.
Firoz Ahmed, a wildlife biologist with Aaranyak who has carried out camera trapping in wildlife parks of Assam, has been inducted as a member of the NTCA.
Ahmed’s term is for one year and it will end in September next year. The notification for his appointment was issued in the last week of June.
“I will try to highlight the issues of the Northeast in the tiger conservation policies of the Centre,” he told The Telegraph today.
Ahmed was the team leader of the Kaziranga camera trapping exercise, which put the park on top of the world after it was found that the park had a tiger density of 32 per 100 sq km. Ahmed said though tiger reserves in the region have resources, rigorous planning was required at the management level to use the resources to their best.
He is also developing individual profile of tigers in Kaziranga, Orang, Manas and Nameri under the Tiger Informatics through Geospatial and Ecological Research (TIGER) project.
“This will assist the managers and other stakeholders with updated information on tigers of the region and create awareness among the masses,” Ahmed said.
He had recently carried out an appraisal of Dampa tiger reserve in Mizoram, one of the important landscapes in the Indo-Bangladesh border with contiguous forests in both the countries.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110704/jsp/northeast/story_14192136.jsp
Firoz Ahmed, a wildlife biologist with Aaranyak who has carried out camera trapping in wildlife parks of Assam, has been inducted as a member of the NTCA.
Ahmed’s term is for one year and it will end in September next year. The notification for his appointment was issued in the last week of June.
“I will try to highlight the issues of the Northeast in the tiger conservation policies of the Centre,” he told The Telegraph today.
Ahmed was the team leader of the Kaziranga camera trapping exercise, which put the park on top of the world after it was found that the park had a tiger density of 32 per 100 sq km. Ahmed said though tiger reserves in the region have resources, rigorous planning was required at the management level to use the resources to their best.
He is also developing individual profile of tigers in Kaziranga, Orang, Manas and Nameri under the Tiger Informatics through Geospatial and Ecological Research (TIGER) project.
“This will assist the managers and other stakeholders with updated information on tigers of the region and create awareness among the masses,” Ahmed said.
He had recently carried out an appraisal of Dampa tiger reserve in Mizoram, one of the important landscapes in the Indo-Bangladesh border with contiguous forests in both the countries.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110704/jsp/northeast/story_14192136.jsp
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