Category : Wildlife | Location : National | Posted on 2022-08-25 00:15:48
Big cats are dispersing in new territories from their secured occupancy areas in India. Wildlife conservation is a practice to protect flora and fauna and their prime habitats. Today, 987 protected areas in India (national parks, wildlife sanctuaries, conservation reserves and community reserves), cover about 5.3 per cent of the nation’s geographical areas.
These protected areas include five Asiatic Lion Reserves in Gujarat, 52 Tiger Reserves in 18 states and 385 protected areas in 30 leopard states and Union Territories. Status of key wildlife species or apex predator as part of habitat is an indicator of health and resilience of natural ecosystems. Today, Management effectiveness evaluation indicates that the majority of the protected areas have poor conservation status due to intense biotic pressure, including progressing human-encroachment and inadequate management inputs.
In India, management effectiveness achieved high standards in about one-tenth of the protected areas, which support fascinating mega-species such as tigers, Asiatic lions, elephants, rhinoceros and a few other critically endangered species. In fact, management and financial inputs in these protected areas are much higher than the rest of similar regions in the country.
Source: https://www.dailypioneer.com/2022/columnists/-let-big-cats-roar-in-far-away-jungles-of-india.html
