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CHENNAI Administrative and financial sanction for improvement and maintenance of a forest road not in use for decades in the core zone of Srivilliputhur - Megamalai Tiger Reserve (SMTR) has come as a
Financial sanction for the improvement of the “illegal” road was solely with the intent of helping estate owners in the area, environmental activists have charged
They have moved National Tiger Conservation Authority to stop any improvement work on ‘illegal’ road in core habitat of the Srivilliputhur-Megamalai reserve
Srivilliputhur–Megamalai Tiger Reserve in TN approved
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February 06, 2021 17:11 IST
The proposal seeks to declare 1.48 lakh hectares of land for the reserve, which will be the fifth for the big cats in TN
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The proposal seeks to declare 1.48 lakh hectares of land for the reserve, which will be the fifth for the big cats in TN
The Central government has given its approval for the creation of a fifth tiger reserve in Tamil Nadu that will encompass the Meghamalai and Srivilliputhur Grizzled Squirrel Wildlife Sanctuaries.
For nearly a decade now, environmental activists have been seeking a tiger reserve linking these two sanctuaries, adjoining the Periyar Tiger Reserve in Kerala, and then to connect it with the Tirunelveli Wildlife Sanctuary, and then to Kalakkad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve to make it a contiguous corridor where the big cats can thrive.