PROTECTED AREA UPDATE
Issue No. 38, August 2002

• List of Contents
  
  ANDHRA PRADESH

• Otters threatened in Coringa Wildlife Sanctuary
  Major thrust to eco-tourism in the state
  
  ARUNACHAL PRADESH
   
• State to initiate various steps for wildlife protection
• NGO expresses concern over status of Namdapha
  
  ASSAM
   
• Sonitpur administration bans Demecron
• Assam may have eco-battalions, private forests
• River dolphin population declines alarmingly
• Kaziranga to seek Project Tiger status
• Rumble strips on NH 37 to protect animals fleeing from Kaziranga
• Proposal to scrap Deepor Beel Sanctuary dropped
• Elephant survey conducted in Assam
• Central funds for Gibbon WLS
• Elephant and cattle treatment camp at Orang, Laokhowa, Sona Rupai and Nameri
• Meeting held on bio-diversity conservation in Assam
  
  GUJARAT
   
• Flash floods kill 105 blackbuck in Velavadar
  
  KARNATAKA
   
• Night safari proposed in Bannerghata
• Journalists arrested for trespassing in Nagarhole
• Eco-development project in Nagarhole to be extended by a year
• Fishermen prevented from fishing in Bhadra
• Plan to control wild elephant menace
  
  KERALA
   
• Tourism Dept. invites bids to develop sanctuaries for eco-friendly tourism
• KFRI to study possibilities for eco-tourism in protected areas in state
  
  MADHYA PRADESH
   
• WII identifies four crucial forest patches for tiger conservation in Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh
  
  MAHARASHTRA
   
• Tiger population declines in state
• State to set up 'Forest Courts'
  
  MEGHALAYA
   
• Balpakhram NP to be remeasured
  
  MIZORAM
   
• Two new bird sanctuaries to be set up at Reiek Mountain and Tamdil Forest

ORISSA

• Ramsar award for Chilka
• Defence units, off shore oil projects to affect sea turtle nesting on Orissa coast
• Khariar Forests, adjacent to Sunabeda surveyed
  
  RAJASTHAN
   
• Census reports 70 tigers in Rajasthan
• Ranthambore villages to move out of park
  
  TAMIL NADU
   
• 11 new PAs proposed in Tamil Nadu
• Traditional crops of tribals from Anaimalai going extinct
• Tribals help curb poaching in Indira Gandhi (Anaimalai) WLS
• Nilgiri Tahr population rises in Indira Gandhi WLS
• Kani tribals prove successful forest watchers in Kalakad-Mundanthurai (GF 174/84)
• Heat affecting coral reefs in Gulf of Mannar
• Proposal to declare the Pallikaranai marsh a 'protected wetland'
  Proposal to declare Kattupalli island an 'environmental heritage site'
  
  WEST BENGAL
   
• Naxalites oppose sanctuary in Mayurjharna
• Sahara project in Sunderbans to start soon
• Ramsar tag sought for Sunderbans
• US $ 25 million trust proposed for Sunderbans

NATIONAL NEWS FROM INDIA

• SC appoints Central Empowered Committee to deal with forest cases
• ZSI project on 'endangered species' fails to take off
• KIOCL surveying new sites for mining
• New National Committee on Ecotourism and Mountains formed

UPCOMING

• XII World Forestry Congress
• International Conference on Sustainable Development of the Himalayas

PA UPDATE MATTERS

• PA Update now available on CD
• Index of Protected Areas in the PA Update

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