GUWAHATI: The Assam government has decided to constitute a committee to conduct on-the-spot verification of the areas for delimitation of nine. elephants Corridors in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve (KNPTR).
A meeting to this effect was organized in the office of Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Minister Atul Bora in which Environment and Forest Minister Parimal Shuklabaidya, Health and Family Welfare Minister Keshab Mahant, Commissioner and Secretary, Environment and Forests, Gyanendra Dev Tripathi, PCCF (P. CCCF Wildlife) Amit Sahai, Chief Wildlife Warden, MK Yadav and other officers participated.
Ministers Atul Bora and Keshab Mahanta – in whose constituencies the identified elephant corridors fall – will assist and assist the team in conducting the field survey. The committee will submit its interim report after 15 days and final report within a fortnight after making the evaluation.
The meeting discussed the proposed nine elephant corridors as well as the creation of eco-sensitive zones at KNPTR to provide safe passage to pachyderms and to address human-elephant conflicts. The new addition areas of the park along with the reserved forests will come under a single integrated entity.
In April, 2019, acting on an application by animal activist Rohit Choudhary, the Supreme Court prohibited all mining activities in the entire catchment area of rivers/nalas and rivulets originating in the Karbi Anglong hill ranges along the southern boundary of KNPTR. “Stopped”. Drifting in the park. “No new construction shall be permitted on private land, which is part of the nine identified cattle corridors,” the order said.
It is noteworthy that the Environment and Forest Department had filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court on nine identified elephant corridors with land coordinates.
A meeting to this effect was organized in the office of Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Minister Atul Bora in which Environment and Forest Minister Parimal Shuklabaidya, Health and Family Welfare Minister Keshab Mahant, Commissioner and Secretary, Environment and Forests, Gyanendra Dev Tripathi, PCCF (P. CCCF Wildlife) Amit Sahai, Chief Wildlife Warden, MK Yadav and other officers participated.
Ministers Atul Bora and Keshab Mahanta – in whose constituencies the identified elephant corridors fall – will assist and assist the team in conducting the field survey. The committee will submit its interim report after 15 days and final report within a fortnight after making the evaluation.
The meeting discussed the proposed nine elephant corridors as well as the creation of eco-sensitive zones at KNPTR to provide safe passage to pachyderms and to address human-elephant conflicts. The new addition areas of the park along with the reserved forests will come under a single integrated entity.
In April, 2019, acting on an application by animal activist Rohit Choudhary, the Supreme Court prohibited all mining activities in the entire catchment area of rivers/nalas and rivulets originating in the Karbi Anglong hill ranges along the southern boundary of KNPTR. “Stopped”. Drifting in the park. “No new construction shall be permitted on private land, which is part of the nine identified cattle corridors,” the order said.
It is noteworthy that the Environment and Forest Department had filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court on nine identified elephant corridors with land coordinates.
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