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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. XVI No. 4 August 2010 (No. 86) LIST OF CONTENTS Kerala 9 EDITORIAL 3 Solar fencing leads to increased human-elephant A terrible train of accidents conflict in Kerala NEWS FROM INDIAN STATES New frog species in Ervikulam NP Andhra Pradesh 3 Madhya Pradesh 10 Plan to relocate Chenchu tribe from Nagarjunsagar- Guards burn tiger cub carcass in Pench TR; cut Srisailam TR pads for tantrik ritual Drunk drivers pose threat to wildlife in Maharashtra 10 Nagarjunsagar-Srisailam TR Big reshuffle in Maharashtra FD Assam 4 Satellite-collared leopard walks 120 kms to Railway advisory to restrain elephant deaths in Sanjay Gandhi NP Assam Four policemen suspended for getting to close to CBI probe into wildlife contraband haul at tigress in Nagzira WLS Guwahati airport Meghalaya 12 Speed restriction on NH-37 through Kaziranga NP NBWL rejects uranium mining in Balpakram NP Locals protest killing of a youth by Kaziranga NP Orissa 12 staff NTCA to oppose decision allowing for removal of Manas Tiger Reserve Information System bamboo from Satkosia TR Bihar 6 Expert committee to probe mass killing of Dolphin mitras in Vikramshila Gangetic Dolphin elephants in Simlipal TR in April Sanctuary MPs ask for action on Dhamra Port forest Gujarat 6 violation ‘Amitabh Route’ in Gir interests tourists MoEF denies permission for thermal power plant Jammu & Kashmir 7 at Dhamra near Bhitarkanika NP Markhor numbers up in Qazinag NP; peace along Rajasthan 14 Indo-Pak border main reason Rajasthan to construct small dams and ponds in its Karnataka 7 protected areas Bannerghatta night safari between 6 and 11 pm: FD Tigers translocated to Sariska from Ranthambore Motor rally inside Cauvery WLS; spotted deer TR were siblings killed Sikkim 15 MoEF cancels clearance given to power plant in Sikkim says no to SC directive of 10 km eco- Karwar; says it is too close to Cotigao WLS sensitive zone around PAs Two elephants from Hassan moved to Bandipur Tamil Nadu 15 NP; one starts return journey Elephant-proof trench work along NMR stopped Special Tiger Protection Force for Bandipur TR Uttar Pradesh 15 Pollution related deaths of fish and crocodiles in CEE biodiversity awareness programme in River Kali near Dandeli WLS, Anshi NP Dudhwa TR Uttarakhand 16 Meeting on conservation and livelihoods in the SOUTH ASIA 21 Askot-Nanda Devi landscape Nepal Initiative to revive Gola elephant corridor Rhesus macaques released from research centre to West Bengal 16 Shivapuri NP; court issues show cause notice Ban on diesel cars and plastic in Gorumara National Park OPPORTUNITIES 21 North Bengal PAs under threat from hydroelectric Course in Conservation Biology and Wildlife project in Bhutan Management Elephant killed in railway accident near Siliguri ATREE Small Grants Programme 2010 Advisory emphasizes over/underpasses across Short-term field-based course in conservation railway tracks in North Bengal; nature groups science disagree EQUATIONS is looking for programme staff for Radio collared tiger crosses border from India into tourism related research Bangladesh in the Sundarbans UPCOMING 22 NATIONAL NEWS FROM INDIA 19 Research Seminar on Manas and Kaziranga Solar lamps in buffer villages of tiger reserves National Parks List of threatened bird species in India rises to 154 4th Symposium of ‘Biodiversity and Natural Committee for appraisal of mining and industry Heritage of the Himalaya’ projects around tiger reserves Conference on ‘Interdisciplinary Approaches in More than 70 leopards killed in first three months Environmental Sciences’ of 2010 nd 2 meeting of the Western Ghats Ecology Expert PERSPECTIVE 24 Panel Marine conservation – Seeking a model that NeBIO – New Journal on Environment and safeguards livelihoods and ecosystems Biodiversity with a focus on the North East Open source software application for tree identification in Western Ghats Protected Area Update Publication of the PA Update has Vol. XVI, No. 4, August 2010 (No. 86) been supported by Foundation for Ecological Security (FES) Editor: Pankaj Sekhsaria http://fes.org.in/ Editorial Assistance: Reshma Jathar Duleep Matthai Nature Conservation Trust Illustrations: Madhuvanti Anantharajan C/o FES Produced by Greenpeace India Kalpavriksh www.greenpeace.org/india/ Association for India’s Development Ideas, comments, news and information may www.aidindia.org Royal Society for the Protection of Birds please be sent to the editorial address: www.rspb.org.uk / Indian Bird Conservation Network KALPAVRIKSH http://www.ibcn.in/ Apartment 5, Shri Dutta Krupa, 908 Deccan *** Gymkhana, Pune 411004, Maharashtra, India. Information has been sourced from different Tel/Fax: 020 – 25654239. newspapers and the following websites Email: [email protected] http://wildlifewatch.in/ Website: www.kalpavriksh.org http://indiaenvironmentportal.org.in Protected Area Update Vol XVI, No. 4 2 August 2010 (No. 86) much more recent and have proven to be hugely detrimental to wildlife. EDITORIAL Killing an elephant attracts the highest punishment under the law. There is much breast beating, for instance, when A terrible train of accidents animals are killed by poachers or in retaliatory killings by villagers who are victims of It is more than six years now that the railway track elephant depredation. There are demands for running through the forests and protected areas in stricter punishment, for immediate arrests and North Bengal was converted from meter gauge to calls for the Central Bureau of Investigation to broad gauge. Scores of wild animals including look into the matter. elephants, gaur and leopards have been crushed We know exactly what is happening under trains that have been speeding along this on the rail tracks in North Bengal. A similarly corridor. Accidents were happening even before distressing situation exists in neighbouring the gauge conversion but then the speeds were Assam, which has the dubious distinction of limited and the number of trains were less. maximum elephant deaths in train accidents No solution seems in view and to say (there are four stories on elephants and train then that Gorumara, Jaldapara, Chapramari and accidents in this issue of the PA Update Buxa are protected areas makes no sense, because alone). The scene of ‘crime’ is known, the the animals here have no protection. Nearly a actors are known and yet no action is taken: dozen and a half elephants have been mowed killing of wildlife is clearly a lesser crime down in these PAs and adjoining forests by trains when committed by a particular set of actors. here and nothing has been done about it. Some of This is the story in different forms in different the solutions suggested over the years are outright parts of the country. Some are more equal laughable and non-implementable. These include than others and wildlife, certainly, is at the suggestions by the court a few years ago to light bottom of that pile! up the tracks using solar lighting so that the train drivers will be able to see the elephants. More recently the West Bengal Forest Department has been advised to construct rail under and over passes to allow safe passage to wildlife in a few places along the 160 kms track. The other suggestions have been of the temporary band-aid types - clear vegetation along Wildlife and RTI activist the tracks to increase visibility; employ trackers murdered in Gujarat with walkie-talkies to keep an eye on elephant movement; increase co-ordination between forest It is just as we were going to press that we got and railway staff and slow down the speed of the shocking news of the murder of wildlife trains at night when most of the accidents seem to and Right to Information (RTI) activist from happen. It is a telling comment that the concerned Gujarat, Amit Jethva. He was shot dead by unidentified assailants outside the High Court authorities have not managed to implement even th these simple ideas. Conservation groups have in Ahmedabad on the 20 of July. Jethva was suggested that all nighttime train traffic be President of the Gir Nature Club and had been stopped on this route or that the line be diverted to campaigning passionately for the protection of avoid the vulnerable areas. This might be a small the forests and animals of Gir. price to pay to prevent the death of an endangered We strongly condemn this killing and animal, but even this appears to be non- hope that the perpetrators will be brought to acceptable. When villages that predate the book soon. We also express our heartfelt creation of PAs by 100s of years can be relocated condolences to his family and close ones. in the interest of wildlife, there is no reason the same can’t be done for these rail tracks that are Protected Area Update Vol XVI, No. 4 3 August 2010 (No. 86) Source: ‘Drunk drivers pose threat to animals in NEWS FROM INDIAN STATES tiger reserve’, Deccan Chronicle , 02/05/10. Contact: Field Director , Nagarjunasagar - Srisailam Tiger Reserve, Srisailam ANDHRA PRADESH Dam (East) – 512103, Andhra Pradesh, Tel: 08524-286089 / 286140(R). Fax: Plan to relocate Chenchu tribe from 08524-286071 Nagarjunsagar-Srisailam TR ASSAM The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has chalked out a detailed plan to relocate 1,000 Railway advisory to restrain elephant families of the Chenchu tribal community from deaths in Assam the Nagarjungsagar-Srisailam Tiger Reserve. The tribals are to be relocated to the fringe areas of the The Railway Board has issued advisories to reserve and as per present norms, every family is prevent train accidents that have been being offered Rs 10 lakh for the relocation. frequently killing elephants in Assam. Anthropologists have expressed concern The matter was discussed in a that the hunter-gatherer community may be unable meeting in May held between officials of the to adjust to the new circumstances and the Northeast Frontier (NF) Railway and the state environment they are moved into.
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