EMIGRATION, PUIS NOUVELLE COHABITATION ?
TROIS TIGRES DISPARUS DE RANTHAMBORE (RAJASTHAN) ONT ETE RETROUVES DANS LE MADYA PRADESH, DONT DEUX A KUNO.
Source : Times of India, ce jour. Kuno doit bientôt accueillir des lions en provenance de Gir (voir : "Résidence secondaire", publiée hier sur ce blog). Si les choses se concrétisent, en quels termes les deux grands félins vont - ils cohabiter?
GWALIOR: Movement of tigers from Rajasthan's Ranthambore to the Chambal range in
Madhya Pradesh has become a cause for concerned of the two states.
Three tigers who went missing from Ranthambore have been located in Madhya Pradesh including one in Seoda range in Datia district - a mix of reserve and protected forest area and two in
Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary, selected for relocating lions from Gir in Gujarat.
After writing to the Madhya Pradesh forest officials to check whereabouts of the missing tigers, a team of officers from Ranthambore visited Datia district last week. They installed camera traps
to check its movements. The tiger was finally caught in the camera traps of Madhya Pradesh forest department.
"Our team followed the tiger all the way to MP. We are happy that it's safe there and the officers were very cooperative. We cannot stop dispersal, only concern is its safety," said Y K Sahu, district forest officer
Ranthambore.
The tiger in Datia is said to be a 3-year-old cub of Ranthambore's T-26 tigress. Information collected from the forest officials and the GPS tracking by WWF India- Western India
Tiger landscape team indicates this cub travelled more than 220 km to reach the Seoda range.
On March 14, 2013 the tiger was found in Seoda range of Datia territorial forest division, which is a forest patch of 55km in length and width of 11-12 km. The range has both reserve and
protected forests with the Sindh river flowing in the middle and the Vindhya hill ranges on the western side. There are many villages on both sides
From March 14 till date several samples and pugmarks have been recorded while following the tiger. There was no tiger sightings reported from Datia till one was shot dead by poachers in 1998.
Prior to that one was hunted 'legally' by member of a Royal family in 1960, said sources.
"We are very concerned about the tiger's safety. Additional patrolling is being done to keep tab on its movement," said chief conservator of forest (Gwalior circle) S P Rayal.
Kuno is now a house to two Ranthambore tigers, T-38 that was spotted there since last year and other one that moved in recently. Officers had been visiting the place to track the tigers. "We have
not received any pictures of the tiger so far. Search is on," Sahu said.
LENTEURS...
DANS LE PARC CORBETT (COMME AILLEURS), LES BRACONNIERS TRAVAILLENT PLUS VITE QUE L'ADMINISTRATION. Le corps d'un tigre mutilé a été retrouvé. C'est le deuxième en un mois. Une unité anti braconnage est constituée officiellement. Mais les recrutements n'ont pas encore commencé... Source : Times of India, ce jour.
DEHRADUN: A mutilated body of a 6-year-old tiger was found in Ramnagar forest division
under Corbett Tiger Reserve (CTR) in Nainital district on Thursday.
Kumaon forest conservator, Sameer Sinha, said the carcass was spotted during a routine visit by officials to Ramnagar forest division to roughly
tally the number of tigers and other endangered species and their overall condition in the region.
Sinha said as the team discovered a tiger's
body with its amputated leg. A forest official part of team said that the tiger's carcass also bore injuries caused by sharp-edged weapons. He
said the tiger had apparently crossed into Ramnagar forest division in search of prey.
The official said the exact cause of death will be known after post-mortem examination report but the condition of carcass suggested it might have the work of poachers.
A senior IFS officer said the condition of carcass indicated that the animal was killed mostly probably late Wednesday. The body was taken to Corbett Veterinary centre for post-mortem.
This is the second suspected case of tiger
poaching in Ramnagar forest division within one month. A tiger was found dead there in the second week of March. About seven tigers were found dead under mysterious circumstances under CTR and Ramnagar forest division during
the last five months.
Decks were cleared for Special Tiger Protection Force in Corbett
Decks have been cleared for forming a Special Tiger Protection Force (STPF) in Corbett National Park after senior officials in National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), Uttarakhand Forest department and Corbett National Park (CNP) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) at Ramnagar in Nainital
district.
CNP director Ranjan Mishra said that STPF' will considerably help ensure the security of tigers and other endangered species in Corbett. The decision to form this force was taken to prevent
spurt in tiger poaching in Corbett.
"Now there is no technical hitch in recruitment for force and we will begin recruitment", said Mishra. Principal chief conservator of forests R B S Rawat said the proposal had been pending
with the Union ministry for forests and environment for sanction for a long time.
RESIDENCE SECONDAIRE
Les lions de Gir, dans le Gujarat, vont bénéficier de façon imminente d'un nouveau site pour le développement de leur population (estimée à 411 en 2010), à Kuno, dans le Madya Pradesh. Ce qui provoque une controverse et va entraîner des recours de la part de différents représentants de leur "résidence principale". Source: Times of India, ce jour.
RESTAURATION COMPLETE
La tigresse "Cendrillon", retrouvée blessée à la fin de l'année dernière en extrême - orient russe, pourra âtre relachée le mois prochain dans un site adapté. La campagne pour cette opération avait recueilli près de 110 000 dollars de dons hier. Source : Phoenix Fund, le même jour.
ALEA DE L'EXISTENCE
Après plusieurs attaques de léopards, une femme est morte sous les crocs d'un tigre dans une réserve du Maharashtra. Le corps de la victime a été traîné sur 500m. Source : Times of India, ce jour.
NAGPUR: After six persons were mauled by problem leopards in the Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve landscape in Chandrapur in less than a
month, one more woman was killed by a tiger inside the Umred-Karhandla Wildlife Sanctuary, 55km from here.
The victim, identified as Laijabai Bhagwan
Fukat (65) of Ranbodi village inside
the sanctuary, had gone to collect mahua flowers in the morning. As she did not return home by 2pm, a search was launched by villagers.
They traced the body of the elderly woman in compartment number 364 in Wanoda. According to official sources, the woman was killed near a solar
water hole in compartment number 435. The tiger had dragged her body for around 500 metres.
"The carnivore had eaten the right hand and entire shoulder of the woman," said police inspector Suresh Bhoyar, who rushed to the spot after learning about the incident.
There was lot of commotion at the spot and villagers were not allowing policemen to take away the body as no senior forest officials had reached the spot. Forester Madhukar Fukat and some forest guards were the first to reach
the spot.
PI Bhoyar pacified angry villagers and shifted the body to Umred at 7pm. Range forest officer (RFO) GF Luche reached the spot at 8pm. This is the fifth human kill by carnivores in the last three
years in and around Umred-Karhandla. At least 25 villagers have also been injured in attacks by animals.
Sources said the same tiger was seen walking along the road in the sanctuary by RFO Luche during patrolling early morning. He had alerted villagers collecting mahua flowers then. However, the
incident seems to have occurred after 10am after he returned.
Ranbodi, with a population of 550, is in the middle of the sanctuary and is proposed to be relocated. "If the village is relocated, man-animal conflict will get a break. Carnivores are crying for space, besides prey base is also an
issue," said Rohit Karoo, honorary district wildlife warden.
"There is resentment among people against wildlife in the area as they are not able to reap tourism benefits. Nor are they getting rights over forest produce. The sanctuary is yet to be thrown
open for tourists," said Raju Lambade, a resident of Umred.
ACCIDENT DE PARCOURS
DEUX TIGREAUX ONT ETE ECRASES PAR UN TRAIN DANS LE MAHARASTRAH (grand Etat de l'Ouest de l'Inde, capitale : Mumbaï - ex Bombay -). LA POPULATION DE GRANDS FELINS A PRATIQUEMENT DOUBLE DANS CETTE REGION AU COURS DES DERNIERES ANNEES. Source : Hindustan Times, hier. A speeding passenger train killed a tiger cub while another cub was seriously injured near Kelzhar railway station, a buffer zone of Tadoba tiger reserves in eastern Maharashtra district of Chandrapur, some 180 kms from Nagpur on Monday morning.
According to reports reaching at the state forest headquarters, the tragedy occurred when a tigress was crossing the railway track along with her three cubs,
early Monday morning.
The tigress and one of her cubs succeeded to cross the track but other two cubs failed to cross in time and the train hit them. One of them died on the spot while another was seriously
injured. The incident occurred at 6:15 am.
SWH Naqvi, the principal chief conservator of forests (Wildlife) and state wildlife warden informed that the injured cub was rescued by a team of forest personnel and was shifted to Wildlife
Rescue Centre at Nagpur on Monday evening.
The injured tiger cub is reported to be very serious. The deceased cub was around six months old, he added.
The passenger train was on its way to Gondia from Chandrapur when the accident took place. The body of the cub was taken away for post mortem by the forest personnel.
Kishore Rithe, member of National Board for Wildlife, insisted that action should be taken against the railway personnel for not keeping the speed low in such a sensitive area. “We have demanded that limited trains with slow speed should operate near the forest areas. But they do not listen,” he rued.
According to Rithe, similar incidents were also reported in the area. The last such incident was reported when a sloth bear was killed after a speeding train hit it. A leopard was also killed a couple of years ago in this area in a similar manner, he further said.
With the death of this tiger cub, as many as 17 big cats were killed within Tadoba tiger reserves area in last 10 years. Most of them were victims of poachers.
Tadoba is the lone tiger reserves in the country where tigresses had given births of 38 cubs since January 2010.
The state wildlife warden, Naqvi said that the wildlife wing has booked the railway authorities under various sections of Protection of Wildlife Act.
| According to the 2010 census, the tiger population has gone up from 103 in 2006 to 169 in 2010 in Maharashtra. Wildlife experts estimate that the tiger population has now touched 200 mark in the state and in Tadoba tiger reserve it stands at 69, a jump of 16 from the previous count of 53. Tadoba is probably the first tiger reserve in the country to spot as many as 38 tiger cubs since January 2010. |
There are four tiger projects in the state - Melghat, Tadoba, Pench (all in Vidarbha) and Sahyadri (Western Maharashtra). Of them, Tadoba tiger reserve, one of the country’s oldest national parks, was in the news recently for better wild cat conservation and birth of 38 tiger cubs in the area since January 2010. The reserve is spread over 623 sq kms of high hills and lush valleys covered with dense teak and bamboo forests. It is also the home to wild dogs, leopards, sloth bears, bison and hyenas and jungle cats, apart from 69 tigers.
ZONE DE FAIBLESSE
L'état d'Odisha (Inde du Nord Est) a semble t-il "perdu" les tigres de la réserve de Satkosia, créée en 2007, et où 18 de ces animaux étaient répertoriées. Source : Hindustan Times, hier.
The tragedy at the Sariska and Panna reserve forests is set to be repeated. This time it could be in the eastern state of Odisha, where no tigers have been spotted for months in Satkosia, a
forest habitat on the banks of Mahanadi river.
Satkosia is one of the newest homes for the feline in India with the state government declaring 963sq kms as tiger reserve in 2007. At that time, the forest in the gorge of Mahanadi in southern Odisha had officially 18 tigers.
A unique habitat having elephants, leopards, gharials and pangolins among other wildlife, it was considered a second viable tiger home in Odisha since Simlipal was out of bounds for the forest department because of high naxal presence in Mayurbanj district. “The forest had perfect environs to sustain good tiger population,” said a senior official of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA).
Things have dramatically changed in the last year or so with poachers increasing their assault on elephants and tigers. “Lot of elephants had been poached in that area. We believe they (poachers) would have also killed tigers,” said Biswajit Mohanty of Orissa Wildlife Society and member of National Board for Wildlife.
State forest department officials, however, ruled out poaching of tigers but admit that the big cat numbers has hit a nadir in recent times. “The problem is because of skewed sex ratio of the existing tiger population. The tigers have failed to repopulate as some male tigers died because of old age,” an official said.
The reserve had around a dozen tigers in 2010 when the last estimation was done and the forest department claimed that the numbers would increase as most of the tigers were young and breeding. Two years down the line, they have been proven wrong with cameras installed recently failing to catch photographs of tigers. “We were not able to see even cubs or juveniles,” an official said.
Officials admit that Satkosia was facing danger of extinction of local tiger population and there may be need to relocate tigers from other reserves as done in Sariska and Panna, from where tigers vanished in the last decade. Both Sariska in Rajasthan and Panna in Madhya Pradesh now have tiger numbers following successful translocation.
RANTHAMBORE S'AGRANDIT
LA CREATION ANNONCEE D'UNE TROISIEME RESERVE A TIGRES AU RAJASTHAN REVIENT A UNE EXPANSION SIGNIFICATIVE DU SANCTUAIRE DE RANTHAMBORE. IL S'AGIT DES COLLINES DE MUKUNDRA. Source : Times of India, ce jour.
The reserve area will be over 759 sq km spread between four districts of Kota, Bundi, Chittorgarh and Jhalawar near the Ranthambore tiger reserve. "Nearly 417 sq km have been earmarked as the core tiger habitat, while 342.82 sq km has been notified as the buffer zone," senior a forest official. The other two tiger reserves of Ranthambore and Sariska have a core area nearly thrice this size.
"With powers bestowed under Section 38 V of the Wildlife Protection Act 1972, we have declared Mukundra hills national park as a tiger reserve. When the budget announcement was made last financial year, we had taken the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) into confidence. Now that we have declared it as a reserve, we will be forwarding the notification to them," said A S Brar, head of forest forces and chief wildlife warden, Rajasthan.
The Section 38V of the Wildlife Protection Act says that the state government shall, on the recommendation of the Tiger Conservation Authority, notify an area as a tiger reserve. The state government has received an in-principle nod from the NTCA.
According to Brar, a three-member expert committee had been constituted under the then chief wildlife warden A Choubey which included a member from the state wildlife board and the chief conservator of forests, Kota, which surveyed the area and consulted the gram sabha. Consultation with the gram sabha is necessary, as under the law, the core area of the reserve is to be an inviolate space and all villages have to be relocated. However, the law permits man and animal to co-exist with some restriction on commercial activities.
The core area of the Mukundra reserve currently has six villages, two of which are uninhabited. Eventually all these villages will have to be relocated funded by the NTCA. The sanctuary currently has wolves, sloth bear, chinkaras and leopards.
"After the declaration of the area as a tiger reserve, NTCA will also give funds for developing the forest area," said an official.
The Mukundra hill sanctuary was already declared as the satellite core area of Ranthambore reserve by the NTCA and Tigers often stray into the area. "The objective was always to link this to Ranthambore so as to let the tigers that stray from the park come and breed here. It was the next best forest after Ranthambore for rehabilitation of tigers. But we have went a step ahead and declared it as a reserve itself," said the official.
Officials added that at a later stage, tigers will be relocated from Ranthambore reserve so as to provide optimum space to the big cats. Before that the annual working plan for the development and management of the reserve will have to be approved by the NTCA.
PRENDRE LA MESURE DES CHOSES
DES BÊTES DANGEREUSES... POUR LES IMBECILES.
LES CASTORS ET LES TIGRES SONT DES ANIMAUX AVEC QUI IL EST TRES FACILE DE VIVRE EN PAIX ET BONNE INTELLIGENCE.
Depuis le début de l'année, les tigres en Russie n'ont causé la mort d'aucun être humain, contrairement aux castors en Biélorussie. Depuis dix ans, dans les deux pays, les attaques de castors ont été plus nombreuses que celles des tigres.
Source : Moscow Times, ce jour.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/2-beaver-attacks-end-in-a-death-video/478490.html
A fisherman has died after being bitten by an aggressive beaver in Belarus.
The unidentified resident of the city of Brest spotted the beaver walking on the side of the road while driving with two friends on a fishing trip at Lake Shestakov on Wednesday, the Brestsky Courier newspaper reported.
The man stopped the car and approached the beaver to take a photograph, but the animal suddenly pounced on him, biting him in the thigh. His friends tried to bandage the wound and called for an ambulance. But the bite hit a main artery, and the man bled to death before the ambulance arrived.
The beaver attack was not the first. In 2003, dairy cattle breeders in Belarus told of a large beaver attacking a farm manager who tried to shoo it out of a barn. A female farmhand rushed to help him, but they both were bitten by the animal, which they said appeared to be inflected with rabies. Both survived.
Earlier this week a video was posted on YouTube showing a recent beaver scare in the Tver region northwest of Moscow. The author, Alexander Targon, said he dropped his camera and lost a shoe as he fled a beaver that darted toward him as he filmed it.
CONFLIT D'ORIGINE INSTITUTIONNELLE
LA POLITIQUE SUICIDAIRE DE LA "PROTECTION" DES TIGRES CONTRE LES RIVERAINS EST ENCORE A L'ORDRE DU JOUR EN INDE. Source : Times of India, ce jour.
COIMBATORE: Hardly a month after Sathyamangalam wildlife sanctuary was converted as the state's fourth tiger reserve, rights activists and green groups in the
region are now at loggerheads over the future of these forests. While green groups want human settlements inside the forest to be shifted out, rights groups, which represent more than 10,000
tribals inside the forest, say tiger reserve status is illegal as it violates key provisions of Forest Rights Act and Wildlife
Protection Act.
Welcoming the tiger reserve status, Tamil Nadu green movement leader, S Jayachandran is demanding removal of more than 200 tourist resorts that came up in core areas of the reserve- Kongalli,
Hassanur, Mavanatham and Araiya Palayam. He
also said a few temples and makeshift shops came up inside the forest posing a threat to wildlife in the area. According to Jayachandran, many people gather at temples frequently, which disrupts
wildlife.
Meanwhile, K Balamurugan of Tamil Nadu
unit of People's Union for Civil Liberties
(PUCL) has openly demanded scrapping of the tiger reserve status. "The notification in this regard is fast converting the regions into a conflict area between local inhabitants and the forest
department. By doing so, the government has committed several illegalities and blatant violations of Wildlife Protection Act 1972 as amended in 2006 and the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional
Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest
Rights) Act 2006,'' he said.
"The Wildlife Protection Act was violated
through the arbitrary demarcation of the reserve. The process of recognition and determination of rights under the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest
Rights) Act 2006 has not been initiated and completed in this area. The inhabitants were not consulted and their 'consent' was not obtained as mandated by the law. No consultation was held with
'an ecological and social scientist familiar with the area' to determine the area where there are no options for co-existence to be designated as Critical Tiger Habitat (CTH) and where
co-existence is possible as buffer area,'' he pointed out. "No resolution from the Gram Sabhas has been obtained as required under Forest Rights Act," he added.
Meanwhile, K Kalidasan of NGO Osai has welcomed the decision saying the tiger reserve status would help end poaching and protect rich flora and fauna of the region. "It is the culmination of a
long pending demand. Other than tigers, it has a huge number of elephants and vultures which require protection. It also functions as a link between a number of forest divisions in Kerala,
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu,'' he said.
Bhavanisagar MLA P L Sundaram said a mass agitation is in the offing as the tiger reserve status was accorded in a way affecting livelihood of traditional forest dwellers. "It is not the
tribal people but the forest department itself that is becoming enemies of the tigers,'' he said.
DANS LE MEME TEMPS, LA RESERVE DE SARISKA AU RAJASTHAN S'APPROVISIONNE AUPRES DU MADYA PRADESH VOISIN, AUX RISQUES ET PERILS DES TIGRES INTRODUITS. La région avait perdu ses tigres au début de ce siècle à l'issue d'une politique administrative ayant brisé un lien parmi les plus harmonieux au monde existant entre tigres et hommes dans l'Histoire, comme l'avait brillamment mis en lumière, quelques années auparavant, l'anthropologue Pedro Galhano Alves.
Source : Times of India, ce jour.
JABALPUR: Madhya Pradesh tigers could soon be heading for Rajasthan to repopulate the Sariska sanctuary. The decision has already been taken at a meeting of the technical committee of National
Tiger Conservation Authority on February 27 and the final shifting will commence after getting over procedural formalities and fine-tuning the plan. Confirming this to the TOI on Wednesday,
forest minister Sartaj Singh said.
"MP would not mind giving away the tigers as it has seen a major spurt in the numbers recently. Our forests are teeming with them .... so much so that it is becoming increasingly difficult for
the department to manage them. The government, therefore, would go along with the NTCA's decision".
When quizzed about the time frame and exact number of tigers to be sent across the border, the minister claimed he had no clue." It would be decided at Delhi and not by us," he said.
Interestingly, principal chief conservator of forest, wildlife, PK Shukla contradicted the minister. "The final decision has not yet been taken. We have merely received a request from Sariska,"
he said.
When confronted with the minister's statement, the official demurred and said the modalities are not finalized. "We may insist on an exchange programme," Shukla said.
After being pipped by Karnataka, MP has been trying hard to regain its status of tiger state. All its parks and sanctuaries, including the Panna Tiger Reserve, which was wiped clean by poachers
along with Sariska in 2003-04, have registered a baby boom, officials claimed. Shukla had himself claimed that the increase in numbers would not be less than 15 percent.
The figure by all India population estimate of tigers and co predators in Kanha alone, officers confide, was 60 in 2010. It has shot up to 78 in 2011-12 and this time the survey was conducted
only over the 940 square km as against 3162 earlier. Now the number of cubs is well over 17, they claimed.
In Bandhavgarh tigers are straying off to adjacent villages and have become a local menace and chief conservator forests Rajesh Singh puts the number of cubs and adults at 70. However, the move
has wildlife lovers up in arms. Questioning the veracity of official claims about a population explosion among big cats, activist Ajay Dubey said that MP has not yet recovered its lost numbers
and, therefore, was not in a position to indulge in such charity. Slamming the minister, Dubey said that Singh has failed to ensure safety of tigers and quoted the growing figures of
electrocution deaths and poaching, which has claimed lives of six tigers in last one year - the highest number in India.
