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PROTECTED AREA UPDATE News and Information from Protected Areas in India and South Asia PROTECTED AREA UPDATE News and Information from protected areas in India and South Asia Vol. XI No. 6 December 2005 (No. 58) LIST OF CONTENTS EDITORIAL 2 Tamil Nadu 11 Mining away Orissa’s wealth! Rejuvenation camp for domestic elephants in Mudumalai WLS NEWS FROM INDIAN STATES Arunachal Pradesh 2 Applications invited for green awards ‘Vacations for Conservation’ program in Eaglenest Rs.2.04-cr. For Kalakad Mundanthurai TR WLS Tripura 13 Assam 3 Focus on tourism promotion in PAs; maximum Alternate route for traffic through Kaziranga revenue from Sipahijala WLS Concern over army offensive in and around Dibru Uttaranchal 13 Saikhowa NP in September Mega tourism project on the outskirts of Corbett NP Gujarat 4 Uttar Pradesh 13 Nine lion deaths in Gir in two months Dudhwa Dy. Director resigns; staff rally in support Jharkhand 5 Rise in swamp deer population in Dudhwa Coal mining threat to wildlife corridors West Bengal 14 Kerala 5 Rains kill nearly 1000 fledglings in Raiganj WLS Global consultation on conservation of wetlands NATIONAL NEWS FROM INDIA 15 Genetic finger printing to help fight wildlife crime Butterfly migration in South India Periyar land handed over for Sabrimala project; Newsletter on Butterflies chipko leader opposes move Wildlife Crime Bureau in three months Kerala plans fast track court for forest cases Census training for forest officials of 5 states Madhya Pradesh 7 Green Governance Awards Taj Group lodges bordering tiger reserves SOUTH ASIA 16 Faunal survey of Kanha by the ZSI Workshop on ‘Eco-tourism and Bio-diversity: Workshop on wildlife health & management Shrinking Wetlands’ Biosphere Reserve in Achanakmar-Amarkantak WHAT’S AVAILABLE 16 Cattle rearers to be moved out of Gandhisagar National Parks and Sanctuaries in Maharashtra WLS The Terai Arc Landscape in India, Securing NBWL approves Pachmarhi denotification Protected Area in the Face of Global Challenge Mizoram 9 Black-necked Crane – Status, Breeding Productivity World Heritage Site proposal for Ngengpui WLS and Conservation in Ladakh, India 2000-2004 A people’s perspective on village displacement Orissa 10 FD report says nearly 100 wild animals poached in from Sarika Tiger Reserve state in 2004-05 SPECIAL REPORTS 18 Ferry ghats sealed inside Bhitarkanika NP In the Supreme Court Baitarni Elephant Reserve hits mining roadblock; Kohima Statement on Community Conservation CM orders forest clearance for mining projects in six months Biju Patnaik award for black buck panel Create PDF files without this message by purchasing novaPDF printer (http://www.novapdf.com) An inevitable consequence has been the serious EDITORIAL escalation in conflict with human beings with serious losses on both sides. How, one wonders, can a CM threaten Mining away Orissa’s wealth! his officials with dismissal if clearances are not The news coming out of Orissa makes granted? Why not ask for the scrapping of all depressing reading. One report says that an forest and environment related laws, instead? Elephant Reserve proposal has been put on hold Won’t that make things even simpler? to allow for mining. Another one reports the CM In a scenario like this there appears to be of the state warning forest department officials little hope for the forests, for wildlife and the with dismissals if clearances for mining projects traditional communities that have been living in are not issued within six months. The these regions for generations? Will it help to just developments related to the mining by Vedanta create small and scattered islands of wildlife in the Niyamgiri hills are now well known. It sanctuaries and national parks, and slice took the Supreme Court appointed Central everything that links these islands? Who, in any Empowered Committee to state that mining case, will ensure the sanctity of these islands? there was illegal – the responsibility for which is How long before these are dug up to get to the as much of the Union Ministry of Environment mineral below? and Forests (MoEF) as of the state government. Orissa’s appetite for more investment Even as we go to press reports are coming in of and for more mining seems insatiable. In the continued state repression of those opposing the quest for getting more and more from under the illegalities of this project. earth all that lives on her surface is being An estimated Rs. 150,000 crores has mindlessly sacrificed. Wonder what will be left in been proposed as investment in mining related the years to come! projects in Orissa in the next decade or so. Most of these areas not only have some of the finest forests in the country, they are also the NEWS FROM INDIAN STATES traditional homelands of hundreds of tribal communities besides supporting large numbers of endangered fauna like the tiger and the ARUNACHAL PRADESH elephant. Shrinking habitats due to large scale mining, construction of train lines and national ‘Vacations for Conservation’ program in highways and irrigation projects have, for Eaglenest WLS instance, already seriously denied elephant populations their traditional migratory corridors. A ‘Vacations for Conservation’ program is being Protected Area Update initiated in the Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary in March 2006. The core idea is to encourage Vol. XI No. 6 December 2005 (No. 58) amateur naturalists to spend their vacations in Produced by: Kalpavriksh Editor: Pankaj Sekhsaria Arunachal Pradesh and contribute to biodiversity Illustrations: Madhuvanti Anantharajan documentation in a systematic manner and have a Ideas, comments, news and information may please be good experience at the same time. It is hoped that sent to the editorial address: this will also help local people earn a sustainable KALPAVRIKSH, Apartment 5, Shri Dutta Krupa, 908 livelihood from their forests. Deccan Gymkhana, Pune 411004, Maharashtra, India. The work that the participants will Tel/Fax: 020 – 25654239. undertake includes spotting herpetofauna, Email: [email protected] photographing butterflies, fungi and orchids Production of PA Update 58 has been supported making bird lists, conducting a census of specific by Foundation for Ecological Security (FES), red list species, investigating breeding biology of Anand. Additional support was provided by birds and recording bird song. Initially the Greenpeace India program is limited to Indian citizens only. 2 Protected Area Update Vol. XI. No. 6 December 2005 (No. 58) Create PDF files without this message by purchasing novaPDF printer (http://www.novapdf.com) Contact: Ramana Athreya, NCRA (Post Bag 3), Source: ‘Bordoloi unveils KNP preservation Pune University Campus, Pune – 411007, concept’, The Sentinel, 08/10/05. Maharashtra Contact: Director, Kaziranga NP, PO Bokakhat, Email: rathreya @ ncra.tifr.res.in Dist. Golaghat – 785612, Assam. Tel: Web: http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/people/zak/ramana 03776-268095(O), 268086(R). ASSAM Concern over army offensive in and around Dibru Saikhowa NP in September Alternate route for traffic through Kaziranga Serious concern has been expressed by a group of distinguished citizens over the recent offensive of the Indian Army against ULFA (United Liberation Front of Asom) militants taking shelter in and around the forests of the Dibru Saikhowa National Park. The offensive, which was conducted in September, is said to have caused immense hardships to the local people of the region. Total curbs were imposed on people's movements, resulting in hunger, starvation and The Assam Minister of State for Forests, disease. The district administration, too, was not Pradyut Bordoloi recently suggested that efforts allowed to visit the affected areas. would be made to divert traffic from the NH 37, The Army had taken control of the park which runs through the Kaziranga National Park on August 31 and put the two main forest (KNP). Increased traffic on NH 37 and villages, Laika and Dodhia, with a population of development along the highway has created about 10,000, under siege. Their main mode of serious problems for wildlife in the park in transport, the country boats, were also seized. recent years. There have also been many The Army had occupied four anti-poaching instances of animal deaths due to accidents, camps of Lolomi, Kahtalbam, Raidung and particularly during the monsoons when the Kundaghat of Guijan Range of the park and was animals try to reach higher grounds on other side also maintaining a vigil at the Guijan and Laikia of the road (see PA Updates 50, 49, 47, 45, 44, 38, Ghats. 34 & 29). The Army moved in to take control of The proposal is to divert the vehicular the park after issuing a notice to the Divisional traffic from Jakhalabandha to Bokakhat via the Forest Officer-in-Charge of the park on the plea NH-52, which links Jakhalabandha to Gohpur. that a counter-insurgency operation would be Jakhalabandha is the last town west of KNP and launched there. The Army said they had definite Bokakhat is the first town east of it. Given this, information of the presence of a strong contingent the Bhomoraguri Bridge and a proposed bridge of ULFA militants inside the park. at Gohpur, both across the Brahmaputra, would At the initial stage of the operation, the have to be made 4-lane. This would add 58 kms Army claimed to have recovered two abandoned to the journey from Jakhalabandha to Bokakhat, camps of the ULFA, but after that, there was no but the minister pointed out that this was definite information about what actually was important for the long-term well being of the happening in the park. ULFA claimed that 12 of national park. its cadres were killed inside the national park and He also said that in order to streamline the bodies were thrown into the river. According traffic further, another route from Nagaon to to Army authorities, however, only four militants Numaligarh via Doboka, Dilai and Dimapur was including a woman were killed during the also being considered.
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