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April 2007 (No PROTECTED AREA UPDATE News and Information from protected areas in India and South Asia Vol. XIII No. 2 April 2007 (No. 66) LIST OF CONTENTS WII study indicates 9 tigers in 185 sq. kms of Panna EDITORIAL 2 NP Pilgrims and PAs Maharashtra 10 NEWS FROM INDIAN STATES Village relocation starts from Tadoba Andhari TR Assam 3 Vigil in Sanjay Gandhi NP and Tungareshwar WLS 58 rhino deaths in Kaziranga NP in 2006 for Mahashivratri Centre agrees to Assam plea for increase in Eco-festival in Bhimashanker WLS on occasion of elephant depredation compensation Mahashivratri Rs. One crore for Pobitora WLS Mizoram 11 Two rhinos released in Manas Indo-Bangladesh border patrol road to pass through Call to declare the Khabalu-Ghagarmukh stretch Dampa TR of River Subansiri in Lakhimpur as a river Orissa 11 dolphin sanctuary FD objection to power lines inside Lakheri Valley Chandigarh 4 WLS Migratory bird deaths in Sukhna; bird flu ruled Seven sites for ‘Conservation and Management of out Wetlands and Mangroves’ Scheme Goa 5 Kin of elephant attack victims get compensation New Ceacilian found near Mhadei WLS HC probe into Badrama Wildlife Division tree- Gujarat 5 felling Gir lions to be moved to Barda Sea turtle nesting sites for tourism development Gujarat Government to form ‘Gujarat Lion Hydrophones to study Chilika dolphins Conservation Society’ Crab culture project in Chilika area Efforts to reduce lion mortalities, conflict in Gir Concerns over tourism plans in Chilika Haryana 6 Villagers volunteer land for mangrove regeneration Meeting held to discuss Bhindawas WLS near Bhitarkanika Himachal Pradesh 7 1482 crocodiles counted in Bhitarkanika Over 1,00,000 birds in Pong Dam WLS Dogs sterilized to save Orissa turtles Jharkhand 7 Fisherman shot dead; forest guard arrested; Training for Jharkhand PA staff colleagues boycott protection duty at Karnataka 8 Gahirmatha New Tiger Reserve to include Dandeli WLS, Rajasthan 15 Anshi NP and Mahaveer WLS in Goa Rajasthan to set up a Tiger Cell Walls to deal with human-elephant conflict Tamil Nadu 15 Marine national park proposed for Netrani Island Wildlife sanctuary proposed at Sujilkuttai near Fire threat to Bandipur, Nagarhole NPs Bhavanisagar Madhya Pradesh 9 Augmenting tourist facilities in Indira Gandhi WLS FD seeks power to shoot illegal miners Wildlife census in Indira Gandhi WLS Scheme approved for forest villages outside Deer census in Guindy NP in May protected areas Wildlife census in Tamil Nadu from March 12 Elephant rides resumed at Mudumalai too Create PDF files without this message by purchasing novaPDF printer (http://www.novapdf.com) ATREE newsletter on KMTR WHAT’S AVAILABLE 22 Uttarakhand 17 State of Environment 2005 – Andaman and Nicobar CEC approves road through Askote WLS Islands State to purchase 50 elephants for patrolling, ‘Carnivore Conflict’: Support provided to leopards tourism in Conflict related cases in Maharashtra West Bengal 17 Environmental Issues in India – A Reader Luxury cruise to Sunderbans from Kolkata OPPURTUNITIES 23 Survey finds no river terrapin in Sunderbans Opportunities with GEER in Gujarat Steps to check illegal felling in Buxa TR, North Position available in project on epiphytes Bengal region Volunteers needed for survey of Bugun Liocichla Elephants kill two timber smugglers in Buxa around Eaglenest WLS NATIONAL NEWS FROM INDIA 18 Curatorial Technical Education staff needed for new Workshop held for National Policy for Human- nature facility in South India Leopard Conflict Samrakshan Trust needs Conservation Awareness New technology for tracking small animals Officer Definition of Forest Rs. 65 crore for National Tiger Conservation Authority EDITORIAL Members of the NTCA appointed Training Programme on Wildlife Crime Pilgrims and PAs Management in Guwahati SOUTH ASIA 20 Many protected areas across the country, be it the Myanmar Sanjay Gandhi National Park and Bhimashankar Gold mining being allowed in Hukuang Valley Wildlife Sanctuary in Maharashtra, the Sariska Tiger Reserve and Ranthambore Tiger Reserves in Rajasthan, Nepal Gir in Gujarat, the Periyar Tiger Reserve in Locals in Chitwan buffer zone demand action Kerala or the Biligiri Ranga Temple Sanctuary in against warden Karnataka have one thing that binds them. Army initiatives in Nepal for wildlife protection Deep in the heart of these PAs with rich Sri Lanka forests and a diversity of wildlife are important 1850 elephants killed in Sri Lanka in 15 years and extremely popular places for worship; sites INTERNATIONAL NEWS 21 that are revered and visited by lakhs of pilgrims India signs IOSEA Marine Turtle MoU every year. In many places the traffic of the UPCOMING 20 Call for entries: Vatavaran Environment Film devout is a steady, regular stream flowing through Festival 2007 the year. On special occasions like the recently Call for papers on failed proposals for protected passed Mahashivratri this stream becomes a flood areas and lakhs of visitors descend to these areas. The pressure this creates on the forests, Protected Area Update the wildlife and basic amenities like water and Vol. XIII, No. 2, April 2007 (No. 66) Editor: Pankaj Sekhsaria sanitation can well be imagined. It can also be Illustrations: Madhuvanti Anantharajan argued that changing times and values are Produced by: Kalpavriksh destroying the very sanctity that made them Ideas, comments, news and information may please sacred in the first place. What is also clear is that be sent to the editorial address: we have little understanding or capacity to deal KALPAVRIKSH, Apartment 5, Shri Dutta Krupa, 908 with these situations and particularly so because Deccan Gymkhana, Pune 411004, Maharashtra, these are within areas kept aside for wildlife. India. Tel/Fax: 020 – 25654239. Some efforts, however, are being made Email: [email protected] like we saw on the occasion of Mahashivratri in Website: www.kalpavriksh.org Maharashtra in February (see stories below). We Production of PA Update 66 has been supported also know of initiatives from other places like by Foundation for Ecological Security (FES), Periyar where there are joint efforts with the local Anand. communities to deal with this specific situation of a huge number of pilgrims. Protected Area Update Vol XIII, No. 2 2 April 2007 (No. 66) Create PDF files without this message by purchasing novaPDF printer (http://www.novapdf.com) For a deeply religious country like Centre agrees to Assam plea for increase in India the challenges and questions that this elephant depredation compensation throws to us are, of course, huge and daunting. Can we have a pilgrimage in forest areas that is 20 Members of Parliament (MPs) recently different from what we see elsewhere? How submitted a memorandum to the Union Ministry can the communities, both the local residents of Environment and Forests (MoEF) in the matter and the visiting thousands, be part of the of the large-scale elephant depredation being solution? Can we conceptualise and execute experienced in Assam. systems that make a difference? Can / does the The memorandum pointed out that the conservation community see this as an lump-sum amount of Rs 23 lakh granted to opportunity of educating the huge numbers a Assam from the Central Government was not little more about the animals, the forests and commensurate with the extent of damage. As a their importance? Can NGOs, the Forest result it was only possible to make an ex-gratia Department and other interested parties come grant of Rs 40,000 per death and Rs 1000 for a together to send back a pilgrim who is a little fully damaged house. There was no money, more aware of the environment and sensitive to therefore, for crop damage. the imperatives of conservation. It was also pointed out that Assam alone A good starting point might be an possesses 5,500 out of the 10,000 wild elephants effort to comprehensively document such in the North Eastern Region (NER). Every year situations and also the small and scattered 50 to 60 lives are lost due to attacks by wild efforts that are indeed being made. There might elephants and the state government is unable to be lessons to learn and share. provide adequate funds from its resources due to The questions, needless to say, are its inherent financial problem. The MPs also easy to ask; the solutions, if any, will be requested the Centre to equalize the amount of the extremely tough. ex-gratia grant amounting to minimum Rs 2 lakh granted to the families of persons killed by extremists. NEWS FROM INDIAN STATES The memorandum further pleaded for enhancing the total area of elephant habitat with the marking of elephant corridors and to make Project Elephant effective and friendly to the ASSAM people. It also urged for a special permission to the Assam Government for capturing few 58 rhino deaths in Kaziranga NP in 2006 elephants every year to deal with the problem of elephant-human conflict. The Kaziranga National Park lost a total of 58 The Centre is reported to have agreed to rhinos in the year 2006. Of these five were many of the demands. The minimum ex-gratia killed by poachers and 53 died due to natural payment of Rs. 1 lakh has been approved for the causes. The park also lost 14 elephants and four families of those killed by wild elephants. The tigers in 2006, while the Forest department compensation amount for damage to houses and arrested 27 poachers with rifles, live cartridges crops would also be increased subject to the and wires in the same period. Assam Government submitting a detailed report Figures for rhino deaths in Kaziranga specifying the extent of such damages. for the earlier years are as follows: 43 in 2001, The Centre has also suggested that the 66 in 2002 and 2003, 104 in 2004 and 80 in Government of Assam take up the matter of 2005.
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