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Vol. XXVII, No. 4 August 2021 (No. 152) Vol. XXVII, No. 4 August 2021 (No. 152) LIST OF CONTENTS FD to deploy electric wire detector in five TRs EDITORIAL 3 to prevent wildlife electrocution On time and space in conservation Increase in Olive Ridley nesting on Maharashtra’s beaches in 2020-21 NEWS FROM INDIAN STATES Ashram continues illegal construction inside Assam 4 Tungareshwar WLS Another batch of captive-bred Pygmy hogs SGNP, Tungareshwar WLS has many Waghoba released in Manas NP shrines representing worship of big cats by Tiger numbers triple in a decade at Manas NP; local communities census records 37 leopards, many other Human-Leopard Interaction Incidents in endangered species Maharashtra, May-June 2021 Aaranyak gifts bicycles to frontline staff of Nineteen leopard deaths in four years in Manas NP Aurangabad district of Maharashtra State committee to verify areas for elephant 87 leopard deaths in the first four-and-a-half corridors in Kaziranga months of 2021 in Maharashtra Delhi 5 Odisha 11 Delhi wetland authority prepares plans to Elephant deaths due to electrocution on the rise revive, protect 180 waterbodies in Odisha Goa/Maharashtra 6 Gharials breed naturally in Odisha after almost Tillari tigress moves from Maharashtra into half a century Mhadei WLS Rajasthan 13 Kerala 6 NTCA approves tiger reserve tag for Ramgarh Thamarasserry RFO faces imprisonment in Vishdhari WLS assault case related to killing of Nilgiri Tamil Nadu 13 langurs in Malabar WLS FD set to release tusker Rivaldo back into the Maharashtra 7 wild Proposal for unified control of Bor and Camera trapping reveals good striped hyena Navegaon Nagzira TRs pending with state numbers in forests near Sathyamangalam TR government Telangana 14 26 human deaths in tiger attacks in Vidarbha 14 tigers recorded in Amrabad TR this year Uttar Pradesh 14 Lack of manpower affects monitoring of tiger in NGT directs UP to notify Hastinapur WLS Gautala WLS boundaries within six months Uttarakhand 15 Maharashtra/Madhya Pradesh Corbett and Rajaji TRs to remain open all year Sarus crane population decreases in Vidarbha for tourism; experts raise concerns and Balaghat Odisha NATIONAL NEWS FROM INDIA 15 Removal of illegal prawn gherries from Chilika MoEFCC invites bids to amend the Indian Lake resumes Forest Act 1927 Uttar Pradesh FD to seek help from WII & WWF India for INTERNATIONAL NEWS 16 conservation of Dhanauri wetland 35% of tiger range in India, 40% of lion range in Africa and 70% of elephant range in Contemporary research in and around Africa & Asia outside PAs: Report protected areas: An overview 21 Two distinct species of Eupetaurus squirrels reported in the Himalayas OVERHERD – A visual comment 22 IMPORTANT BIRD AREAS UPDATE 18 FROM THE ARCHIVES 23 Himachal Pradesh De-siltation begins for Khajjiar Lake PERSPECTIVE 24 A tribute to Durrell’s Corfu trilogy Protected Area Update Vol. XXVII, No. 4, August 2021 (No. 152) Editor: Pankaj Sekhsaria Associate Editor: Reshma Jathar Illustrations: Ashvini Menon (Visual Design Studio), Shruti Kulkarni, Madhuvanti Anantharajan & Peeyush Sekhsaria Produced by Kalpavriksh and the Centre for Policy Studies, IIT Bombay Editorial Address: C/o 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 *** Note: Stories that appear in the PA Update are edited version of the original news reports first published in the source mentioned at the end of the story. Publication of the PA Update has been supported by Duleep Matthai Nature Conservation Trust C/o Foundation for Ecological Security http://fes.org.in/ World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) - India and Donations from a number of individual supporters Protected Area Update Vol. XXVII, No. 4 2 August 2021 (No. 152) of 90 leopards in just the last five months; EDITORIAL Aurangabad district alone has seen 18 leopard deaths in the last four years and there are also more specific details of incidents from across On time and space in conservation the state for the last three months. Not only is the leopard more prominently and more frequently visible, across the landscape, one One of the more satisfying experiences of also realises that a lot more information and putting together the Protected Area Update documentation is more easily available than month after month, year after year, are the one would have imagined. One could almost unanticipated insights that suddenly come start to see the leopard in new light and the your way. These are like unexpected little research and management related possibilities rewards and one can highlight two different this throws up are obviously huge. examples from this issue of the Update - one The 2nd example - the temporal one - that runs along the axis of time, the other is the story of Manas NP in Assam that the PA along that of space. Update has reported now for nearly three To note that the temporal and spatial decades. 20 years ago (PA Updates, 35 & 31), dimensions are key elements in and for a large part of the Manas story was largely a conservation is to note the obvious. The negative and depressing one - of militancy challenge, perhaps, is how to materialise and related problems, of the park being emptied of mobilise these dimensions. Data and rhinos, of forest staff being attacked and of information are central, of course, in protection infrastructure being destroyed. understanding patterns, to highlight the Things however begin to change and a decade possibility of a new trend or indeed to later (See 'From the Archives', this issue pg. anticipate what might lie ahead of us. 23), the political and administrative systems The first insight this time comes from were working together, poaching was coming the PA Update's sister publication, the down, the rhino was being successfully re- Maharashtra Sanrakshit Kshetra Vartapatra. introduced, other animals like the swamp deer Published in Marathi with an exclusive focus were being brought back and the park was on Maharashtra, it comes out every three taken off the UNESCO endangered list months and has been around for a year and a because of the positive developments. And in half now. Readers of both, the English and this issue in 2021 (see pgs. 3-4), we see that Marathi newsletters, will immediately notice tiger numbers in Manas are up by a factor of how changing the spatial scale of focus three in the last decade and the re-introduction changes the volume, quality and nature of of the Pygmy hog is also being done information that you get from that geography. successfully in the park. It might be an obvious thing to say, but to see This is not to say that the story is all this come alive is a very insightful experience. rosy and there are no problems; it is to point There is more granularity, more depth and out that positive change does happen and more width because the geographic spread is long-term documentation helps us understand limited. Less, in a sense, allows for more. and appreciate the change and contextualise Stories borrowed from the latest issue that possibility. In the case of Manas it might of the Marathi Update (see pgs. 10-11) give us hope, in the case of the leopards of provide an excellent example of this Maharashtra it might reveal trends and granularity with a range of details on patterns more clearly and guide further incidents of human-leopard directions for meaningful research and interaction/conflict from across the state in effective management intervention. recent times. Maharashtra has seen the death Protected Area Update Vol. XXVII, No. 4 3 August 2021 (No. 152) Tiger numbers triple in a decade in Manas NEWS FROM INDIAN STATES NP; census records 37 leopards, many other endangered species ASSAM Another batch of captive-bred Pygmy hogs released in Manas NP A total of 12 captive-bred Pygmy hogs were released in the Bhuyanpara Range of the Manas National Park (NP) in June under the Results of the 12th annual camera trapping Pygmy Hog Conservation Programme survey this year, which covered 876 sq. km of (PHCP). the Manas National Park (NP) and adjoining areas with traps placed at 285 locations, has Initiated in 1995 by the Assam Forest Department (FD) in association with the revealed the presence of 48 tigers here. This Durrell Wildlife Conservation Society, the included 38 adults, three sub-adults and seven cubs. This is more than three times the count program released the first batch of 14 individuals in Manas in 2020. With this latest of tigers here a decade ago in 2010. batch of 12 hogs released in Manas the total The survey also recorded 37 leopards in Manas including 31 adults and six sub- number of hogs reintroduced into the wild by the PHCP across the state has reached 142. adults. Five other species of wild cats - By 2025, the PHCP plans to release 60 more leopard cat, clouded leopard, marbled cat, of the hogs in the Manas NP. golden cat and jungle cat - were also found in the park and adjoining areas. Reintroduction of captive hogs in the wild began in 2008, initially in three protected The survey was carried out first in the areas. Over the next decade, 35 hogs were Bansbari and Bhuyanpara ranges and later at Kahitema, Panbari, First Addition and released in Sonai-Rupai Wildlife Sanctuary (WLS), 59 in the Orang NP, and 22 in Bornadi. Bornadi WLS. The reintroductions in Orang The survey also recorded four species have been particularly successful as the of endangered, nine species of vulnerable, four species of near threatened and 11 species animals have more than doubled in number, and have spread to areas far from release of least concern mammals as per the locations.
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