Nagpur: In the first recorded example, a 4-year-old TiRigress RadioKollared from Satpura traveled more than 250 km, crossing 11 forest ranges and 4 divisions, to reach the melgat.
This happened even when the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) almost destroyed the functional corridor between the Tiger Reserve (STR) Satpura in Madhya Pradesh and Melghat Tiger Reserve (MTR) in Maharashtra for widening roads.
Although tigers may have moved between Melghat and Satpura, this is the first dispersal recorded because of the radio collar.
Like per field director L Field L Krishnamurthy, Tigress was released in Satpuda from Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve in June 2021.
Stepping out in mid-December.
Tigress was recorded in the camera trap in the new beat under the Sonala Range of Ambabarwa Wildlife Sanctuary, which was part of the MTR.
Speaking with Toi, the Deputy Second Division (DYCF) of the Reddy Division Forest Conservator confirmed that Tigress was recorded on January 31.
Tiger runs more than 250 km from Satpuda to Melgat in 45 days and passes at least four Hoshangabad Forest Divices, Holda, Khandwa, and Burhanpur before reaching Melgat.
As the MTR does not have radio-collared tigers, we suspect new participants from MP and confirm it from our colleagues there.
I have sent a report to the Satpura Krishnamurthy field director, and Melghat Field Director Jayoti Banerjee on Thursday.
I am very happy to see the corridor still functional.
TiGress must come to find new marriages and regions, “Reddy said.
However, the excitement of wildlife lovers will be short-lived, because Nhai destroys the corridor of the Keslaghat-Hoshangabad, from where Tigress reaches Melgat.
Nhai does not take the wildlife mitigation step to save the crucial corridor.
This is is the same corridor toi visited on December 19, 2021.
The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), whose main role is to protect these corridors, silently on this issue.
When asked, NTCA member Secretary SP Yadav said, “I will check the route this.
“Tigress runs over 250 km of Satpuda to melgat within 45 days and pass through at least four divisions forests Hoshangabad, Harda, Khandwa and Burhanpur before reaching melgat.
he tracked by the Department of Forestry MP when he ditransit from range to range.” Movement Tigers are a classic example of the corridor function.
It was ironic that even when the tiger walked in the Keslaghat corridor, the expansion of the Begobedullaganjan (NH-46) continued with inadequate protection.
Tigress is setting the right to road in the Satpuda-Melghat corridor, “said Milind Parawam, a member of the Wildlife Conservation Trust (WCT), the Transportation Group Working Group of the IUCN Connectivity Conservation (CCSG).” There are three roads that threaten the corridor.
Tigress has passed the three on his way.
Let’s hope that the same mitigation level as the guidelines occurred on the three paths in the corridor, “said Parawakam.” The corridor between Satpuda-Melghat is connected by three different patches.
There are absolutely no mitigation measures at Patch Bhoura and Keslaghat when the mitigation measures planned in Baretha Ghat are inadequate and not in accordance with the NTCA guidelines, “said Udayan Patil of Srushti Paradal Mandal.
Part 38 (O) G from WPA, 1972, give the following strength to NTCA: “Make sure the tiger reserves and areas that connect a protected area or tiger reserves with other protected areas or tiger reserves are not transferred for ecologically unsustainable use, except in the public interest and with the approval of NBWL and on advice NTCA.
“Plain readings from the provisions of clarifying that this case should go to NBWL but it has not passed.” The NTCA casual approach, the Ministry of Forestry MP, and NHAI will destroy the vital corridor connecting Satpuda-Melghat, two of the largest tiger reserves in the Central Indian landscape (CIL).
Either NTCA is guilty or NHAI breaks the law.
In both cases corridors, it is a violation and will cause permanent damage and cannot be repaired in the corridor and population of tigers from two largest tiger reserves in the landscape, “Wildlife ConstitoDationists worked in CIL to Ti.
Toi has been on December 19, 2021, reported violations and inability Mitigation measures on the three corridor lines issued by the Fourlaning NH-46 (Old NH-69) but the authorities failed to wake up.