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Bihar to get second tiger reserve as Kaimur Wildlife Sanctuary | PWOnlyIAS 2023

September 28, 2023

GS Paper III Environment and Ecology

Context:

  • Bihar is set to get a second tiger reserve in Kaimur district (Kaimur Wildlife Sanctuary) by the end of the year or early 2024.

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The State Forest Department officials said they were working to obtain the National Tiger Reserve Conservation Authority’s (NTCA) approval for declaring  Kaimur Wildlife Sanctuary a tiger reserve.

  • The total tiger count in Bihar currently is 54.
National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA):

  • NTCA is a statutory body established in 2005 following the recommendations of the Tiger Task Force.
  • Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change.

About Kaimur Wildlife Sanctuary:

  • The Sanctuary has two parts, viz. plains and plateau regions
  • Kaimur Wildlife Sanctuary established in 1979, it features diverse forest types, rare flora and fauna.
    • Fauna: leopard, sloth bear, chital, sambar, wild pig, nilgai, ‘chowsingha’ (four-horned antelope) 
    • Flora:  Khair (Acacia catechu), Palas (Butea frondosa)
  • Geographical Spreadof: Kaimur and Rohtas Districts.
  • It  is the largest and first wildlife sanctuary to be declared in Bihar.
  • Kaimur Wildlife Sanctuary is connected with Chandraprabha Wildlife Sanctuary of UP, which again has links with Sanjay Dubri Tiger Reserve and Panna landscape in Madhya Pradesh through stepping stone forests of Marihan, Sukrit, Chunar ranges and wildlife sanctuaries of Ranipur (UP),

News Source: The Hindu

 

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