Ensuring safe access to wildlife in Lumding Reserve Forest, Assam, India Mitigating the impacts of up-gradation of Doboka-Silchar National Highway (NH54E) Ensuring safe access to wildlife in Lumding Reserve Forest, Assam, India Citation: Mitigating the impacts of up-gradation of Doboka-Silchar Singh A.P., Singh A.K., Mishra D.K., Bora P.,Sharma A., 2010. Ensuring safe access to wildlife in Lumding Reserve Forest, Assam, India, Mitigating the impacts of up-gradation of Doboka-Silchar National Highway (NH54E) National Highway (NH54E), WWF-India Authors: Cover image © Anil Cherukupalli/ WWF-India A.P. Singh, Executive Engineer, Uttar Pradesh Irrigation Department
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[email protected] New Delhi 110 003, India D.K.Mishra, Assistant Engineer, Uttar Pradesh Irrigation department Tel. +91-11-4150 4814
[email protected] Website: www.wwfindia.org Dr. Pranab Jyoti Bora, Coordinator, Kaziranga Karbi Landscape (KKL) Published: November 2010 Amit Sharma, Coordinator, WWF-India Ensuring safe access to wildlife in Lumding RF 2010 page 2 Ensuring safe access to wildlife in Lumding RF 2010 page 3 © GARGA MOHAN CONTENTS Acknowledgements 6 Executive Summary 7 A. Introduction 8 B. Comments on the proposed migration across the 10 proposed Highway C. Comments on the proposed passages for wild 22 animals other than elephants D. Comments on the proposed mitigation measure 28 for arboreal mammals E. Conclusion 29 Ensuring safe access to wildlife in Lumding RF 2010 page 5 Sambar in the Kaziranga Karbi Anglong Landscape ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SUMMARY ©GARGA MOHAN For their support, WWF-India would like to express its gratitude to - Mr.