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Introduction
Conservation
History
Offence cases
Management
Eco-development Under
the Maharashtra Forestry Project funded by the World Bank, ecodevelopment
activities have been taken up in ten villages situated on the
periphery of the Reserve.
Village Forest Protection Committees In
the Tadoba-andhari Tiger Reserve on the eve of the Wildlife
Week children up to high school standard from nearby villages
and town are brought by Reserve bus to Tadoba and given environment
and wildlife education and quiz tests are organised.
Street plays with help of local nature clubs like Rhino Nature Club are arranged, round the year, in different villages around the Tadoba-andhari Tiger Reserve. Nature awareness camps of children from nearby villages and towns are organised with the help of local nature clubs like Vidarbha Nature and Human Science Center at Tadoba periodically.
Human population Livestock population Fire incidences in the Reserve
Poaching of fauna and flora
Diseases
1. To consolidate the area by expeditious completion of inquiry, settlement process and relocation of villages. 2. Permanent demarcation of boundary and also protecting the boundary at places by trench cum mound devices. 3. Strengthen the protection status by providing extra manpower, vehicle, and communication system and involving people in protection. 4. Development of infrastructure likes roads, buildings etc.
5. Habitat improvement work. 6. Reducing dependency of people
on the Reserve by ecodevelopment. 7. Research on different aspects
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Tadoba-andhari
Tiger reserve was created in 1995. The area of the Reserve is
625.40 sq. km. This includes Tadoba National Park, created in
1955 with an area of 116.55 sq. km. and andhari Wildlife Sanctuary
created in 1986 with an area of 508.85 sq. km. The Reserve is
constituted with 577.96 sq. km. Reserve Forest, 32.51 sq. km.
Protected Forest and 14.93 sq. km. other areas.
villages
within the andhari Sanctuary has been initiated. Fifteen patrolling
parties have been formed in which along with the field staff,
3 village protection force volunteers have been assigned the
job of daily patrolling the Tadoba-andhari Tiger Reserve and
help in curbing all illegal activities. These volunteers are
kept for a maximum of three months for which wages are given
as per available grants. However, after three months fresh young
tribal are taken as members of the village protection force
so that all the families of the six villages get some wages
for their livelihood and feel a sense of responsibility for
protection of the Reserve.
Grazing
is not allowed on core zone. Regulated grazing is allowed in buffer
zone to the inhabitants of villages in the buffer zone. The cattle
of peripheral villages sneak in to the Reserve and cause damage
to the habitat.