Conservation issues & WWF-India's interventions
Among the threats faced by the tigers in the corridors are habitat loss and degradation, poaching, inadequate prey in some of the reserve forests as well as wildlife sanctuaries and also retaliatory killing of tigers. The goal of the SML tiger conservation programme is to have the Central Indian tiger landscape fully connected via tiger reserves (core areas) and newly functional corridors, resulting in a 20% increase in habitat, and a 75% increase in the tiger population, by 2020.
A three pronged strategy has been proposed by WWF-India to tackle the issues:
A three pronged strategy has been proposed by WWF-India to tackle the issues:
- Have a model for corridor management for tiger conservation.
- Support forest divisions and wildlife sanctuaries in tiger corridors, particularly in anti-poaching.
- Have a shared tiger conservation vision.
- Strengthen anti-poaching efforts of the Forest Department by providing hardware and software support.
- Strengthening local community institutions to enable them to regulate and manage resource extraction, use and marketing.
- Build conservation awareness among key local stakeholders to enable a strong constituency to address conservation threats.
- Promote alternative livelihoods for local communities to reduce pressure on forest resources in the identified villages.
Bal panchayat, Kharidi village, Achanakmar - Kanha corridor
Beneficiary of Honey Collection
Cattle Proof Trench