Nagpur: Even when the tiger cries for better wildlife space and management of areas around the reserves, the state government sits on a proposal to submit administrative control (unified) from the Drill and Navegaon-Nagzira Tiger Reserve (NNTR) to Wildlife Wing (NNTR) to Wildlife.
, Tell the buffer zone around the mandatory tiger reserve under the Tiger Conservation Plan (TCP) after the Amendment to the Margasatwa Protection Act, 1972, on September 4, 2006.
The SQKM 661 buffer zone of BOR and 1,241 SQKM nntrified in December 2015 and September 2016 respectively -Masing but even after 5-6 years, it hasn’t been brought under the control of integrated tiger reserves.
The buffer zone of Melghat, Penh and Tadoba have been under administrative control over Tiger reserves.
The new state PCCF (wildlife) Sunil Limaye acknowledges that integrated controls with wildlife are reasons to be a concern.
“The proposal was delivered to the state government in June and we will speed it up,” he said.
In 2019, Limaye as APCCF (wildlife-east) has promised to take over the drill and NNTR buffer zone in one month.
Integrated control aims to protect tiger reserves and provide specific habitat input sites in the buffer zone for decent tiger populations, co-predators and prey animals.
According to the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), the minimum space that is worthless of 800-1,000 SQKM must be maintained to support a decent tiger population in the landscape.
P Kalyan Kumar, CCF, Circle Nagpur, which includes the Nagpur Division, Wardha, Bhandara and Gondia, where the area concerned with unified controls, “The whole process of integrated controls ended and the proposal has been delayed by the state.
We have also resolved the staff issues Suitable after administrative control is given to tiger reserves.
“” Technically, it is true that according to NTCA direction, integrated controls must be implemented, but our staff are more or less playing the same role in the buffer zone such as wildlife officials to resolve human conflicts and monitoring tigers.
There was no difference.
I even stepped forward by suggesting the conversion of the Wardha’s territorial division to the wildlife division, “Kumar said.
According to sources, one reason for the delay in integrated control is Covid-19 because the office works with low strength.
Even because there was no covid in 2019, the file did not produce a lot of interest when Sanjay Rathod was the Minister of Forest.
Second, in the past 1.5 years, three forest secretaries have changed hands and no one shows interest in cleaning proposals.
Even the forestry department failed to push proposals during that period.
In NNTR, the management of wildlife buffers has been hit with encroachment in forest land, unchecked grazing, forests produce extraction and neglect of wildlife, which surrendered to the hunt and electric shock.
“In the last three years a dozen dozen Gaurs have died in the Nagzira-Navegaon corridor area in Jambhli, Koylari, Dodke, Shashikaran.
Because the water source is not available in abundant buffers, Gaurs is dying because of thirst,” said Sawan Bahekar from supporting the environment & margastiwi collection (Rent).
Bahekar accused the spread of animals from NNTR forced to suffer while moving in the buffer area where there was no awareness among local residents who still use electric shocks to protect plants from wildlife.
Large-scale logging operations in the FDCM region also affect wildlife habitat.
“The drill becomes the smallest tiger reserve in this country, bringing 661 the SQKM buffer area under an urgent and important united control.
This is good for the survival of long-term tigers as well.
The process of submitting a buffer area to wildlife officials must be accelerated,” Parag said Dandad from the Research & Conservation Society of India environment.