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Eco-bridges for the movement of tigers
July 18 , 2017
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- In a first of its kind, Telangana State will have eco-friendly bridges over a canal cutting across the tiger corridor linking the Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR) in the Chandrapur district of Maharashtra with the forests in Telangana's Kumram Bheem Asifabad district.
- The intervention requires the laying of fertile soil to grow grass and plants over the structure, so that fragmentation of the reserve forest is camouflaged.
- The ‘eco-bridges’ will be constructed at key spots along the 72 km-long, and at some places over a kilometre wide, right flank canal of the Pranahita barrage in the Bejjur and Dahegaon mandals.
- One of the locations tentatively earmarked for the eco-bridge is a spot close to Sulgupalli in the Bejjur forest range.
- Here, the canal is over a kilometre wide and the need to facilitate the movement of wild animals is quite necessary.
- The concept emerged after the large-scale destruction of pristine forest along the corridor, which would result in cutting off tiger movement between TATR and Bejjur.
- The Telangana Irrigation Department has given its consent for the construction of the eco-bridges.
- Recommendations on the size and locations of the bridges are awaited from the National Board of Wildlife
- In recent years, big cats from the TATR have moved into the mixed and bamboo forests of the Bejjur range via the Sirpur forests.
- The TATR and its buffer area, which are contiguous with the Sirpur forests, boast of a speedily multiplying tiger population, the cause of the frequent migration of tigers into Sirpur and Bejjur.
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Pranhita River
- Pranhita is the largest tributary of Godavari River covering about 34% of its drainage basin conveying the combined waters of the Penganga River, Wardha River and Wainganga River .
- By virtue of its extensive network of tributaries, the river drains all of Vidharba region as well as the southern slopes of the Satpura Ranges.
- It flows along the border of Gadchiroli district in Maharashtra and Adilabad district in Telangana.
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