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PROTECTED AREA UPDATE News and Information from Protected Areas in India and South Asia T PROTECTED AREA UPDATE News and Information from protected areas in India and South Asia Vol. XXI, No. 6 December 2015 (No. 118) LIST OF CONTENTS Kerala/Tamil Nadu 9 EDITORIAL 3 Study counts 3,122 Nilgiri tahr; discovers 17 A significant development in KMTR unrecorded pockets of tahr habitat Madhya Pradesh 9 NEWS FROM INDIAN STATES Mahseer on the verge of extinction in MP Andhra Pradesh 3 Radio-collared tiger in Satpura TR killed for Evidence of tiger presence in Sri Lanka Malleswara witchcraft Wildlife Sanctuary Maharashtra 10 Exotic plant species pose a threat to Seshachalam BR 6,724 ha of forest land diverted for development Assam 4 projects in last three years Numaligarh Refinery’s golf course violates Mega project for scat DNA analysis of wildlife in environmental rules; poses threat to elephants Maharashtra near Kaziranga NP, Deopahar RF Fresh petition challenges four-laning of NH 7 Forest guards awarded for their contribution in anti- Ban on plastic bags, wrappers, bottles in poaching drive Mahabaleshwar Bridge across rail line in Gibbon WLS to connect State appoints four non-official members on SBWL Hoolock Gibbons Rajasthan 11 Kaziranga tiger poisoned in Karbi Anglong; poachers NGT asks for GIS and specialised cell for monitoring arrested tree cover Delhi 5 Tamil Nadu 12 Rs. 20 crore worth of ivory, ivory products Community-based eco-tourism at Kanyakumari WLS confiscated in Delhi Court directs BBTC to return Manjolai estate land in Gujarat 6 Kalakad Mundanthurai TR to government No funds for lion conservation in greater Gir area Action plan for sea turtle and dugong conservation in Stray dogs biggest threat to blackbucks in Mehsana the Gulf of Mannar district Plea to exclude 135 villages from proposed Western Nearly 100 lion cubs sighted in Gir Ghats eco-zone Karnataka 7 Telangana 13 Karnataka starts process of reclaiming encroached Concern over Telangana move to allow killing of forestland wild boar CIC for information on projects proposed at Uttarakhand 13 Challakere in Chitradurga to be made public Railway track passing through Rajaji tiger reserve to Conservationists to challenge HC order allowing be electrified soon Navy to resume target practice on Netrani Uttar Pradesh 14 Activists seek ban on night traffic inside Bhimgad 1,263 river dolphins counted in the state Wildlife Sanctuary Pilibhit TR to be expanded; forest land from Kerala 8 Uttarakhand to also be included Foresters nab a gang of elephant poachers West Bengal 14 Community reserve for river dolphins NATIONAL NEWS 15 Assam New catalogue on butterflies of India Villagers honoured for efforts to save greater Environment ministry considers sterilization to adjutant storks reduce elephant population Over 400 vultures killed in train accidents in Assam North Eastern regional consultation workshop held Maharashtra on review and revision of National Forest Policy Satellite telemetry project to study vultures in state WWF –India, Apollo Hospitals joint initiative for Nagaland welfare of forest staff Satellite tagged Amur falcons return to Nagaland NTCA proposal for old-age home for tigers Rajasthan Drastic decline in GIB population in state SOUTH ASIA 16 Rajasthan/Gujarat Pakistan Bottlenecks for proposal for captive breeding of GIB National monitoring network to combat illegal Tamil Nadu animal trade Ketoprofen withdrawn from Erode, Coimbatore, Inviting Arabs to hunt bustards is pillar of foreign Nilgiris districts policy, Govt. tells court Uttar Pradesh Sri Lanka Notification of ESZ for Okhla Bird Sanctuary SC rules against bio-fuel project in buffer zone of challenged Yala NP 250 vultures spotted in Amangarh forest range IMPORTANT BIRD AREAS UPDATE 19 A DECADE AGO 23 National News 180 bird species in India on IUCN’s Red List PERSPECTIVE 24 Fish sanctuaries in Karnataka Protected Area Update Vol. XXI, No. 6, December 2015 (No. 118) Editor: Pankaj Sekhsaria Editorial Assistance: Reshma Jathar, Anuradha Arjunwadkar Illustrations: Shruti Kulkarni, Madhuvanti Anantharajan & Peeyush Sekhsaria Produced by The Documentation and Outreach Centre KALPAVRIKSH Apartment 5, Shri Dutta Krupa, 908 Deccan Gymkhana, Pune 411004, Maharashtra, India. Tel/Fax: 020 – 25654239 Email: [email protected] Website: http://kalpavriksh.org/index.php/conservation-livelihoods1/protected-area-update Publication of the PA Update has been supported by Foundation for Ecological Security (FES) http://fes.org.in/ Duleep Matthai Nature Conservation Trust, C/o FES World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) - India Bombay Natural History Society/ Indian Bird Conservation Network Donations from a number of individual supporters Protected Area Update Vol. XXI, No. 6 2 December 2015 (No. 118) that the BBTC was only a lessee and the land EDITORIAL did indeed belong to the state. The FD and the conservation community has been very pleased with the development but it is to state the obvious that the matter is not yet settled and the A significant development in KMTR legal battles will only intensify as the end of the lease period draws closer. Spread over nearly 900 sq km in southern Tamil There is also the t opinion that BBTC Nadu, the Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve has been an important player in conservation (KMTR) is a rich mosaic of different forest initiatives here in the past, and this has types and a treasure trove of climatic, continued into the present. There is also the geological, plant and animal diversity. An issue of the economic activity of the tea estate important, even indelible part of this landscape as also the thousands of livelihoods that are is the estate of the Bombay Burmah Trading dependent on it. One only hope that all of this Corporation (BBTC), a smaller mosaic that is will be taken into consideration as we move into constituted by tea, coffee and cardamom the future and decisions will be taken that are in plantations, human settlements, and natural the best interests of the forests that constitute the forests. It appears at first sight to be a dimension Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve and the of the landscape that is completely out of place; rich and varied wildlife that finds refuge here. a tea and coffee estate is, after all, the last thing It could well set the template then for that comes to mind in the context of a tiger how similar situations in other parts can also be reserve. And yet, it is a reminder that what are resolved. tiger reserves and protected areas today have a much deeper and complex history than is visible on the surface. Spread over an area of 34 sq km, the NEWS FROM INDIAN STATES estate stands on land leased in 1929 to the BBTC by the then zamindar of the area for a lease period of 99 years. It is, in many ways, ANDHRA PRADESH representative of the situation across the length of the Western Ghats, where plantations of Evidence of tiger presence in Sri Lanka different exotics cover large areas including Malleswara WLS within protected areas. These plantations have also been sites of conflict and contestation – history, livelihoods and economic activity on the one hand; ecological degradation, fragmented forests and human-wildlife conflict on the other. The issue of the BBTC lands has also been at the heart of an ongoing legal battle between the forest department (FD) and the An amateur photographer recently got photos in estate owners. While the FD says the land the Sri Lanka Malleswara Wildlife Sanctuary belongs to the state and should revert back when (WLS) of what are believed to be tiger the lease expires in 2028, the estate owners have pugmarks. This includes one male, one female a completely different take on the issue. In a and a cub, and is believed to be the first significant order passed recently (see News evidence of tigers in the sanctuary after many from Tamil Nadu, pg. 12), and one which could years. Wildlife officials had similarly reported be the first step in the land coming back to the tiger presence here in April, earlier this year, but FD in 2028, the Tirunelveli Sessions court said camera traps they put up had failed to get any Protected Area Update Vol. XXI, No. 6 3 December 2015 (No. 118) pictures of the large cat. Officials said that the ASSAM tigers may have moved south from the Gundla Brahmeswaram WLS in Kurnool district. Numaligarh Refinery’s golf course violates The Lanka Malleswara WLS is at the environmental rules; poses threat to heart of a controversy with ruling party leaders elephants near Kaziranga NP, Deopahar RF from Rayalaseema making efforts to get the ban on night traffic through the sanctuary that The Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL)’s golf connects Siddavatnam and Badvel lifted. course project has come under serious criticism Officials have said that opening up of night for destroying a vital elephant corridor adjoining traffic will put these tigers at risk and also the Kaziranga National increase red sanders smuggling here. They have Park, and leading to noted a decrease in timber smuggling following increased human-animal a ban on night traffic, and fear this could change conflict and elephant if traffic is allowed again at night. mortality here. The NRL has constructed a wall and Source: Balakoteshwara Rao, ‘Tigers foray into put up barbed wire fencing and razor edges to Kadapa forest?’ The Times of India, prevent elephants moving along the corridor of 09/10/15. the Kaziranga-Karbi Anglong reserve from entering the golf course. Exotic plant species pose a threat to The National Green Tribunal (NGT) Seshachalam BR has directed NRL to show how many trees have been cut for the golf project, how many were Exotic plant species planted in the Seshachalam planted in compensation and what has been their Biosphere Reserve (SBR) as part of the special survival rate. The NGT has also directed the afforestation drive are reported to have been Assam government to inspect the location.
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