The Minister of Forestry, Forestry and Fisheries for the 20th anniversary of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) was held at the Pakketiger reserve in Arunachal Pradesh today under the leadership of Minister of Environment, Forestry and Climate Change Shri Bhupender Yadav. For the first time in history the NTCA meeting took place outside the national capital. To find out for yourself information about game reserves, local news etc. The union minister had ordered that from now on the meetings would be held outside Delhi in forested areas or in tiger reserves.
The interim minister said we should promote our tiger reserves across the country with large flora and fauna while at the same time ensuring the lives of people who depend on forests. location and tiger reserve. He said we should hold a meeting with all stakeholders including forest officials dealing with various issues, local residents, professionals, students alike. At the event, locals donated 100 firearms. The full use of the air gun has been a problem in the northeastern provinces. Arunachal Pradesh in March 2021, launched the Air Gun Surrender Abhiyaan which has produced good results so far.
The minister has released a standard operating procedure for restoring the tiger and adding to the wildlife area, a wildfire test protocol for tiger reserves, the MEE technical manual for Tiger game reserves in India prepared by NTCA.
India holds about 70 percent of the world’s tiger population in the wild. Tigers live in various parts of the country. While some areas have rich and functional habitats in line with habitat and prey-base, there are other habitats that live under different regions but have the potential to support a better number of tigers. There may be additional habitats where the tiger population has disappeared. In this case, it is sometimes necessary to re-introduce the tiger or increase the existing population.
SOP and Protocol
As a critical and technical task, NTCA has amended the Standard Operating Protocol (SOP) to address redesign and addition. The SOP considers, the scientific information available on the subject and the possible conditions in India. Dealing with leopard reintroduction and tiger extinction in wildlife areas where it was historically but now extinct or found in low-density enclosures i.e. a-viz carrying capacity, for various reasons but social factors to promote leopard presence still exist or can be improved through adequate management interventions. Therefore, the NTCA issued a SOP entitled, ‘Tiger Reintroduction and Supplementation in Wild Protocol’.
Forager Fire Audit Protocol for Tiger Reserves
Forest fires play an important role in maintaining forest resilience. Fires can play an important role in healthy forests, regenerate nutrients, help tree species to grow, remove invasive weeds and bacteria and save habitat for certain wildlife. Occasional fires can reduce fuel levels that supply greater, more harmful combustion. However, as the population and the needs of forest resources increase, the fire cycle has gone out of balance and these uncontrollable and repeated fires in short succession are one of the major causes of deforestation and the loss of biodiversity.
Increasing forest fires are now a global problem. Therefore, to help tiger park managers check their readiness for fire and control the overall health cycle of forest fires, NTCA has prepared Tiger Reserves Forest Fire Audit Protocol and it is now being released.
Tiger Reserves in India
Tiger survival depends on conservation and management efforts and monitoring the success of conservation efforts and directing management ideas, it is important to evaluate the effectiveness of Tiger Reserves management. India is among the selected countries in the world to develop the MEE process. The internationally recognized framework for the Performance Measurement (MEE) of tiger reserves has paved the way for the effective evaluation of tiger conservation efforts in the country.
MEE work on tiger reserves was started in 2006 and four rounds have been completed. Since then a lot of information has been acquired and the need has been heard and the whole system reviewed and reviewed. Accordingly, the committee was formed by the National Tiger Conservation Authority to revisit and review the MEE course for the 5th round of MEE work from 2022. The aim was to bring equity to the analysis of the country’s various tiger reserves and to guide inspectors on future inspections in the next financial year. Based on the recommendations made by the committee, the technical manual of the Effectiveness Evaluation (MEE) for Tiger Reserves in India is issued by NTCA.
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