FW: Protected Area Update - New Issue - Vol. XIII, No. August 2007 (No. 68)

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PROTECTED AREA UPDATE

News and Information from protected areas in India and South Asia

Vol. XIII No. 4

August 2007 (No. 68)

 

 

LIST OF CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

Some lessons from Gir

 

 

NEWS FROM INDIAN STATES

ARUNACHAL PRADESH

-Villagers for protection of Pakhui TR

 

ASSAM

-Meeting held for Kaziranga protection

-Veterinary Camp around Pobitara WLS

-Timber smuggling in Manas NP

 

 

BIHAR

-Gautam Budha WLS under naxal control

 

 

GUJARAT

-Protection measures being augmented at Gir

-Court denies bail of those arrested in lion poaching in Gir

-NGO organizes conservation awareness programs around Gir

-Gir staff to get insurance cover

-Monthly Monitoring Committee for Gir lions

-168 Blackbuck washed away in flood in Velavadar NP; two lions in Gir

also perish

-Gujarat to set up Wildlife Crime Cell

 

 

HIMACHAL PRADESH

-HP to allow hunting of wild boar

-Chandratal to be declared a wildlife sanctuary

 

 

KARNATAKA

-Windmills proposal for Kudremukh NP

-Ban on NTFP collection impacting adivasis and BRT Wildlife Sanctuary

-Cap on visitors to some PAs in state

-16 elephant deaths in first half of 2007 in Kollegal Wildlife Division

 

 

KERALA

-Kerala to use Wildlife Protection Act in Mullaperiyar Dam case

-Kerala cabinet rejects Community Reserve proposal for Vembanad lake

 

 

MAHARASHTRA

-No plan to move out VIP guest house complex from Tadoba

-Tadoba Andhari TR's Kolara Gate to be opened for tourists

 

 

MANIPUR

-Wetland International report expresses concern over Loktak

 

 

ORISSA

-Steps to check encroachment of Chilika Lake

-Night safari proposed by Satkosia Wildlife Division

-NREGS for tribals affected by Satkosia WLS

-Captive bred crocs released in Bhitarkanika

-Eviction from Sunabeda WLS opposed

 

 

PUNJAB

-Three new PAs in Punjab

 

 

RAJASTHAN

-'Friends of Tigers' for Ranthambor NP

-Rains hit Rajasthan wildlife census in May

 

 

TAMIL NADU

-Study of the Gulf of Mannar's eco system

-Tiger numbers up in Mudumalai WLS

 

 

UTTARAKHAND

-High Court asks for reconsideration of FD order for eviction of Ban

Gujjars from Rajaji

-Reliance Energy team found digging illegally in Askot WLS

 

 

WEST BENGAL

-Zoo proposed in the East Calcutta Wetlands

-Narrow guage line proposed inside Senchal WLS

 

NATIONAL NEWS FROM INDIA

Call for proposals - Small Grants Program for Eastern Himalayas

Centre urges apex court to wind up 'forest bench'

US $ 105 million GEF environment Aid to India

Meeting of Field Directors of all Tiger Reserves

National Board for Wildlife reconstituted

Ex-servicemen for tiger protection

Database of Ornithologists

 

SOUTH ASIA

BANGLADESH

-Top Sunberban official arrested for corruption

NEPAL

-Simultaneous public protests in five PAs

-Increasing number of Chitwan villagers involved in rhino poaching

-Sacred sites trail project in Sagarmatha NP

 

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

-Western/Central Asian Site Network for Siberian Cranes and other waterbirds

-Call for Wildlife Reserve to Cover 30% of Oceans

 

UPCOMING

-Global Change and Pas

-II Latin American PA Congress

 

WHAT'S AVAILABLE

-Commentaries on Wildlife Law

 

OPPORTUNITIES

-Field researchers for seed dispersal study in Pakke Tiger Reserve

-JRF for project on Shifting agriculture in the NE

-Research assistants for project on Trawl Fishing along the Coromandel Coast