Tiger Translocation to Sahyadri Reserve

The Maharashtra Forest department is preparing to translocate several tigers from the Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR) in Chandrapur to the Sahyadri Tiger Reserve.

About Sahyadri Tiger Reserve:

1. Location: It's situated in the Sahyadri Ranges of the Western Ghats in Maharashtra.
2. Establishment: Notified in 2010 by merging Chandoli National Park and Koyna Wildlife Sanctuary.
3. Geography: The reserve includes the area around the Koyna Dam, the Warna River, and numerous streams originating from the Western Ghats.
4. Unique Features:
   1. Rough terrain with steep slopes on the western border.
   2. Presence of barren rocky and lateritic plateaus known as "Sadas," characterized by sparse vegetation and overhanging cliffs.
   3. The only tiger reserve with abundant climax and near-climax vegetations and minimal anthropogenic influence.
5. Vegetation: Moist evergreen, semi-evergreen, moist, and dry deciduous vegetation.
6. Flora: Diverse medicinal and fruit-bearing trees, along with commercial hardwood trees.
7. Fauna: Tigers, leopards, lesser cats, wolves, jackals, and wild dogs.
8. Other Tiger Reserves of Maharashtra: Melghat, Bor, Nawegaon-Nagzira, Pench, and Tadoba-Andhari.

National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA):

1. The NTCA is a statutory body established in 2006 under the Wildlife (Protection) Act 1972.
2. It functions under the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change (MoEFCC) to oversee tiger conservation in India.

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