As per the Status of Tiger Report-2022, Achanakmar Tiger Reserve in Mungeli district of Chhattisgarh has solely 5 tigers. The request from the neighbouring state had are available in July and since then the Maharashtra forest division was exploring all prospects. Finally, the wildlife wing zeroed in on a young tigress that was captured from Chandrapur district a while again and has now been stored on the Gorewada Rescue Centre in Nagpur.
Maharashtra PCCF (wildife) Maheep Gupta confirmed the switch. The 2.5-year-old tigress was captured from Wandhri in Morwa beat of Chandrapur division on August 7. “The tigress has no human imprints and no history of conflict. I have apprised the state government about issuing orders to shift the tigress to Chhattisgarh as it will not require permission from the Central Zoo Authority,” mentioned Gupta.
Chhattisgarh PCCF (wildlife) Sudhir Kumar Agrawal mentioned, “We have received permission from the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) to translocate three tigers (two females and a male) from Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. In the first phase, we plan to bring tigers from Kanha in MP followed by one from Maharashtra.”
Though forests account for 44.25% of the whole geographic space of Chhattisgarh, the tiger inhabitants within the state is going through a decline with 17 huge cats recorded in 2022.
The ATR was fashioned in 2009 with a complete space of over 914 sq km. The Status of Tiger Report-2022 requires pressing consideration to deal with the decline in tiger inhabitants of Chhattisgarh.
“Achanakmar is in a recovery stage, but the long-term sustainability of the tiger population in the reserve depends on adequate investments in protection and prey recovery efforts. The Indravati Tiger Reserve too has the potential for recovery but the area is influenced by left-wing extremism, which poses challenges to conservation efforts,” the report mentioned.
Achanakmar is a part of Achanakmar–Amarkantak Biosphere Reserve and the Central Indian Satpura–Maikal Landscape. The reserve is a crucial unit of a bigger Central India panorama, having quite a lot of habitats appropriate for a lot of threatened species of plant and animals in addition to important tiger occupancy in protected areas and tiger reserves.
“The state government has initiated an ambitious programme for enhancing tiger-centric management with support from the Global Tiger Forum (GTF) and WWF,” mentioned a Chhattisgarh forest official.
