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Climate change threatens Nilgiri tahr
News:
According to a recent study published in Ecological Engineering, Niligiri tahrs could lose approximately 60% of their habitats from the 2030s
Important Facts:
- Highlights of the study:
- To predict affect of climate change on tahr habitats, scientists had mapped tahr distribution
- Next they had used using climatic factors of these locations to predict where tahrs would be able to survive, given current and future climate change scenarios.
- They found that areas such as Chinnar, Eravikulam and Parambikulam in Kerala where there is high tahr population will still be stable habitats under different climate change scenarios.
- However, regions such as Kalakkad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve in Tamil Nadu and the wildlife sanctuaries of Peppara, Neyyar, Schenduruny and Srivilliputhur, could experience severe habitat loss from 2030s onwards.
- Status of Nilgiri Tahr:
- 2500 left in wild
- Vulnerable to local extinction
- According to IUCN, their population shows a decreasing trend
- Conservation Efforts:
- Scientists of National Board for Wildlife had drafted a tahr recovery plan in 2010.
- However, only the Eravikulam and Mukurthi National Parks stress on tahr-centred conservation activities in their management plans. However, the progress in implementation has been questioned by environmentalists
- Environmentalists have called for a comprehensive species management plan for conservation of tahr
