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    MEE-ER management effectiveness Evaluation of Elephant Reserves in India : guidelines, criteria and indicators for evaluation of elephant reserves through Management Effectiveness Process
    (Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, 2023) PE-MoEFCC-WII
    The stated objectives of the Project Elephant include: I. To protect elephants, their habitats, and corridors II. To address issues of man-elephant conflict III. To improve the welfare of captive elephants Under the Project Elephant scheme, the State Governments of elephant range were to identify and propose conservation areas that can be declared as Elephant Reserves (ERs). In order to bring uniformity in management practices across the country; to provide technical and financial support to elephant range states and address issues facing human-elephant conflict, Elephant Reserves (ERs) have been created across the four elephant- holding regions.
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    Assessment of the landscape between the Gir Protected Area and the Girnar Wildlife Sanctuary, Gujarat for a potential lion habitat corridor
    (Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, 2012) Jhala, Y.V.; Qureshi, Q.; Basu, P.; Banerjee, Kaushik
    In this report, assess the habitat characteristics, extent of fragmentation and its future trends, prey abundance and perception of the local communities towards lion conservation in the agro-pastoral landscape between the Gir PA and the Girnar forests to help in delineating the important dispersal corridor habitat between the Gir PA and the Girnar Wildlife Sanctuary, suggesting measures for its effective conservation
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    Evaluation of the functional status and quality of corridors connecting fragmented populations of tiger in the Indian part of Terai Arc landscape : Final Technical report
    (Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, 2010) Rajapandian, K.; Anwar, M.; Goyal, S.P.
    Most rare and critically endangered species such as tiger (Panthera tigris) exist in human dominated landscapes as small, fragmented and isolated populations in most part of its range. A prerequisite for conservation efforts and management is to identify the factors which affect the distribution and abundance of the species of interest and connectivity between populations occupying the remaining fragments. Tiger populations have dramatically declined in recent years in the Indian part of Terai Arc Landscape (TAL). This top priority landscape for tiger conservation was once continuous across the Himalayan foothills but is now highly fragmented and most of the remaining large, intact habitats are located within protected areas. As tigers cannot sustain viable populations in small habitat fragments, an assessment of potential suitable habitat and connectivity among the remaining habitat patches is required to assess possibilities to ensure the creation of a single functioning metapopulation unit for tiger. Therefore, there is a need to monitor condition of tiger’s habitat (Smith et al. 1998). The effectiveness of potential corridors depends on the quality of habitat with in the corridor, the matrix that surrounds the corridor and redundancy of the corridor network (Collinge, 1998; Haddad et al. 2003). Out of ten corridors identified in TAL (Johnsingh et al., 2004), seven corridors were taken on priority basis for understanding quality and functionality assessment. Five and two corridors exist in Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh state of India, respectively. In view of understanding functionality of corridor, the objectives of this study was aimed (i) To describe the functional status (use and intensity) of the corridors with reference to tiger, (ii) To study the biological characteristics (vegetation composition, prey distribution and abundance, and disturbance status) that determines the corridor quality and (iii) To use, and to document the socioeconomic issues affecting the corridor existence and its use. Under this study, we describe basic data obtained for these seven corridors for their habitat characteristics, use by tiger and level of disturbance under Part I. This would provide base line information for comparison in future. Data analysis undertaken in Part II of this report are use of ecological modeling models to assess functionality of these corridors using remote sensing data and other aspects
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    Gajah: Securing the future for elephants in India : The report of the Elephant Task Force, MoEF
    (Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, 2010) Rangarajan, Mahesh; Desai, Ajay; Sukumar, R.; Easa, P.S.; Menon, Vivek; Vincent, S.; Ganguly, Suparna; Talukdar, B.K.; Singh, Brijendra; Mudappa, Divya; Chowdhary, Sushant; Prasad, A.N.
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    Tiger corridors of the Eastern Vidarbha landscape
    (NTCA and Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, 2016) Mondal, Indranil; Habib, Bilal; Nigam, Parag; Talukdar, Gautam
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    Telemetry based tiger corridors of Vidarbha Landscape, Maharashtra India
    (Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, 2021) Habib, Bilal; Nigam, P.; Mondal, I.; Hussain, Z.; Ghaskadbi, P.; Govekar, R.S.; Praveen, N.R.; Banerjee, J.; Ramanujam, R.M.; Ramagaonkar, J.
    The Vidarbha Landscape (VL) is very important as it harbours a population of about 331 tigers and forms the connecting link between the central and southern Indian tiger populations. It plays a pivotal role in exchange of individuals and thereby facilitates gene flow between these two populations increasing the viability of tiger populations in India. There are 8 protected areas or wildlife divisions where these tigers live, but these refuges are scattered like islands in a sea of human dominated landscape. Therefore, knowing the locations of tiger movement corridors and probable areas of human tiger conflict is especially important for a wildlife manager.