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UDHAGAMANDALAM: With home to 103 tigers, the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve has reached its saturation when it comes to tiger population, according to deputy director of MTR-core zone C H Padma.
“There has definitely been an increase in the population of tigers in MTR since the last survey in 2018. We can say that the MTR is saturated when it comes to the tiger population. The increase in the number of tiger population will be accommodated in spillover areas such as Mukurthi National Park and the adjacent Nilgiris and Gudalur forest divisions,” Padma said.
MTR is home to the largest density of tigers among the five reserves in the state.
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Buildings, and a road leading to the construction site were illegally set up; Forest Department has cut off access to the road and has booked a case
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Buildings, and a road leading to the construction site were illegally set up; Forest Department has cut off access to the road and has booked a case
The ecologically-sensitive area of Naduvattam, adjoining the Mukurthi National Park is at risk, due to the construction of buildings as well as an illegal road cutting through forest land.
Adivasi farmers threaten existence of Wenlock Downs, one of the last remaining grasslands in the Nilgiris
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In the past 10 years many swamps and grasslands have been encroached in Wenlock Downs reserve forest in Niligiris forest division.
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Sathyamoorthy M Over a hundred hectares of the last remaining grasslands in the upper Nilgiris, in Wenlock Downs, is being slowly eroded by encroachments by the Shola-grasslands’ former adivasi protectors the Todas and Kotas.
According to Forest Department officials, over a 100 hectares of the total expanse of 1,500 hectares of land designated as “forest lands” in the Udhagai North Range, have been encroached upon by the Todas and Kotas, many of whom have leased their lands to non-tribals in exchange for a small fee.
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