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Biodiversity & Conservation
Gir National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary
part of Khathiar-Gir
dry deciduous forests ecoregion
Animals
Asiatic Lions
Chowsingha
World´s only four horned antelope
Bird Area declared by Indian Bird Conservation Network
Birds
Raptors
critically endangered
Kuno National Park
protected area in MP
Khathiar-Gir
Dry deciduous forests ecoregion
btw Sheopur and Morena district
Saharia tribal people
Asiatic Lion Reintroduction Project
proposed Cheetah Reintroduction in India
Indian Bullfrog (Hoplobatrachus tigerinus)
largest species of frog found in
AFG, BAN, MYA, NEP, IND, PAK
Introduced in Madagascar and Andaman
IUCN -least concern category
Abundant in South and Southeast Asia
BullFrog
protected under Schedule 4 of the Wildlife Protection Act of India, 1971
:
Salim Ali Bird Sanctuary
estuarine mangrove habitat
Marsh crocodile
smooth-coated otter
unique glossy-marsh snake
crabs, mud lobsters, sap-sucking sea slugs
Indian Giant Squirrel
declared bird sanctuary
located
western tip of the Island of Chorao
along the Mandovi River, Goa
low-lying floodplains of Goa
Khazan farming
estuarine agricultural system
topo-hydro-engineered agro-aquaculture ecosystem
mainly based on regulation salinity and tides
bunds used to grow variety of vegetables
allowed fisher and farmer harmoniously coexist
LaCONES
Laboratory for
conservation of Endangered Species
India´s only research facility
wildlife and its resources
CSIR lab located in HYD
Conceptualized by Lalji Singh
part of CCMB (centre for cellular and molecular biology)
estd in 1998 - help to
Central Zoo Authority of India
CSIR
Govt of AP
dedicated to nation in 2007 by APJ kalam
Status of Tigers report
India stands at 2,967 » compared (1400) to 2014
Observed
increase at rate of 6% per annum in India
from 2008-2018
India hosts 70% of world´s tigers
National Park
Uttarakhand
Jim Corbett national park
largest habitat of big cats in India
highest tiger density
Karnataka
Nagarhole has 127
Bandipur has 126
now 524, earlier 406
MP
Bandhavgarh has 104
Topped tiger estimation with 526
last time had 308
Assam
Kaziranga has 104
Uttar Pradesh
Sohagi Barwa Wildlife Sanctuary
non-tiger zone, now has 1 tiger
Tiger reserves
17 of 50 reserves- approaching peak their capacity
approaching the peak their capacity
Global Tiger Forum and Tiger Range Countries
Seven tiger countries
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India
Cambodia, Laos, Nepal, Vietnam
UK- participate tiger conservation programs
non-govt org
WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature)
and TRAFFIC
only inter-governmental international body
13 tiger range countries
GTF formed in 1993
International symposium of Tiger Conservation at New Delhi
Chairperson, one of the tiger range countries minister
fixed tenure of 3 years
Founding partners
World Bank, Global Environment Facility (GEF)
National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA)
Estd in 2005
Launched in 2005 recommendation of Tiger Task Force
Constituted by
PM for reorganized management of Project Tiger
NTCA
Statutory Body, WPA of 1972 was amended in 2006
responsible
Implementation of the project tiger plan
future plan for conservation
lay down normative std
guidelines for tiger conservation in TR
Provide info on protection measures
Center-State
facilitate and support TR management in States
prepare annual report laid in parliament along with Audit report
Under Chairmanship of Minister for Enviro and Forest
Tiger census is conducted by NTCA every 4 years
M-STrIPES
Monitoring System for Tigers – Intensive Protection and Ecological Status
App based monitoring
launched across Indian tiger reserves by NTCA in 2010
Conservation Assured | Tiger Standards (CA|TS)
India is the first country adopt CATS
set of minimum std for managing conservation sites
tiger are first species selected for initiative
developed by
collaboration with field manager
tiger experts
govt agencies
partnership
tiger range govt
inter-govt agencies
NGOs and conservation org
WWF is help tiger range countries to implement CATS
implemented in all 13 Tiger Range Countries (TRC)
Nepal is the first TRC implement process
approved in three sites
Chitwan National Park, Nepal
Sikhote-Alin Nature Reserve, Russia
Only Lansdowne forest Division, India
Indian Rat Snake (Ptyas mucosa)
Dhaman distributed across Southeast-South Asia
adapt to live
arid land, open fields, farmland, coastal region
freshwater or brackish water wetlands
Farmers friend help get rid of rodents from fields
