Railway tracks to be shifted from Palamu Tiger Reserve
The freight corridor between Son Nagar in Bihar to Patratu in Jharkhand passes through the Palamu Tiger Reserve. Besides, a new railway track of 11 kilometers is also proposed.
The freight corridor between Son Nagar in Bihar to Patratu in Jharkhand passes through the Palamu Tiger Reserve. Besides, a new railway track of 11 kilometers is also proposed.
Satkosia, which is home to two tigers despite its rich tiger-friendly prey base and ecosystem, has hogged the spotlight for carrying out the country's first tiger translocation programme.
The National Tiger Conservation Authority had on 29 July, 2019 published a report of the fourth cycle of the All India Tiger Estimation2018, and it showed that there is no existence of the animal in the BTR.
These results have shown a healthy annual growth rate of tigers at 6%, which offsets natural losses and keeps tigers at the habitats carrying capacity level, in the Indian context.
Officials of the National Tiger Conservation Authority had come to Satkosia recently to study the activities of Sundari.
It might be worth the NTCA’s while to study how the problem was said to have been addressed in Gujarat ~ there too an increased population had resulted in the lions spreading beyond the protected zones.
Regretfully, there was no operational coordination among veterinary professionals and the team that eventually killed the tigress
Focus to be now on the release of the tigress kept in a special enclosure after being brought to Satkosia from Bandhavgarh in MP on 28 June
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