Two tiger reserves in Tamil Nadu earn a global status in conservation
The Hindu
Mudumalai and Anamalai Tiger Reserve get the global elite tag for best tiger conservation practices
Anamalai Tiger Reserve located at Pollachi near Coimbatore, one of the largest landscapes in the south of Palghat Gap with 4000 sq km of protected area, and the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve in the Nilgiris, a bio-diversity hotspot of the Western Ghats have now earned a global elite tag in tiger conservation. It is the Conservation Assured Tiger Standards (CATS) status, a conservation tool for best practices and standards to manage tigers. Only 14 reserves made the cut including Parambikulam in Kerala, Bandipur in Karnataka, and Manas, Kaziranga and Orang in Assam, for the accreditation exercise by India’s National Tiger Conservation Authority under CATS. Well-known reserves like Corbett, Ranthambore and Bandhavgarh did not get the tag.More Related News
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