Indravati Tiger Reserve Poaching
Source : Times of India
GS III : Environment
Overview
- News in Brief
- About Indravati Tiger Reserve
Why in News ?
Chhattisgarh Forest Department has so far arrested 3p 9 persons for poaching in Indravati Tiger Reserve, Bijapur, and sent them on judicial remand.
News in Brief
- revealed the whereabouts of the remaining people involved in the killing of a tiger in the Indravati Tiger Reserve.
- The nine accused were already sent to jail under the Wildlife Protection Act, of 1972.
- The gang is involved in the poaching of wildlife such as tigers, sloth bears and turtles, posing a grave threat to the wildlife.
About Indravati Tiger Reserve
- It is situated in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district.
- The Indravati River, which runs from east to west and defines the reserve’s northern border with the Indian state of Maharashtra, is the source of the park’s name.
- Under Project Tiger, Indravati became a national park in 1981 and a tiger reserve in 1983.
- The park derives its name from the Indravati River.
- Northern boundary of the reserve with Maharashtra.
- Indravati National Park is among the most famous wildlife parks of Chhattisgarh.
- Area: 2799 km2
- Got status of a national park in 1981.
- Flora:
- The tropical moist and dry deciduous type with predominance of bamboo, sal and teak.
- The most common tree in the park are teak, lendia, salai, mahua, tendu, semal, haldu, ber and jamun.
- Fauna:
- One of the last populations of the endangered wild Asian buffalo.
- Large predators are represented by tigers, leopards, sloth bears, and dholes or wild dogs.
- The region is mostly Naxal Affected Area.
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