DHOLPUR-KARAULI TIGER RESERVE (DKTR): 54th Tiger Reserve (TR)
National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) accords final approval to DKTR.
- Now, after being notified by the State government DKTR will become the 54th Tiger Reserve (TR) of India and 5th of Rajasthan.
- Ranthambore, Sariska, Mukundra Hills and Ramgarh Vishdhari are the remaining four TRs in
- Tiger Reserves are notified by State Governments on the advice of NTCA under Section 38V of the Wildlife (Protection) or WPA Act, 1972.
- A Tiger Reserve, considered as critical for tiger conservation,
consists of two parts:
- Core or critical tiger habitat: National Park or Sanctuary status
- Buffer or peripheral area: A lesser degree of habitat protection is required
- Key initiatives to protect tiger
- Project Tiger launched in 1973 is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme of
- Tiger Conservation Plan and Tiger Conservation Foundation to be prepared by the state government under WPA for tiger reserve management.
- TRAFFIC to facilitate improvements in India’s anti-poaching efforts.
- Leveraging technology
- M-STrIPES (Monitoring System for Tigers Intensive-Protection & Ecological Status): An android app for monitoring.
- Project ‘E-Bird Technology for Tiger Conservation’: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles as a Surveillance and Monitoring tool.
- Conservation Genetics: Used in low tiger density areas to detect tiger presence.
In a related development MoEFCC cleared the NTCA’s in-principle approval to declare Kumbhalgarh Wildlife Sanctuary (in Rajasthan) as a tiger reserve