Boma Capturing Technique: Boma technique adopted for translocating deer from Keoladeo

What is the News?

Boma technique has been used for the first time at Keoladeo National Park in Rajasthan for capturing and translocating spotted deer to Mukundara Hills Tiger Reserve.

What is Boma Capturing Technique?

The Boma capturing technique is popular in Africa. It involves the luring of animals into an enclosure by chasing them through funnel-like fencing. 

The funnel tapers into an animal selection-cum-loading chute supported with grass mats and a green net to make it opaque for animals, which are herded into a large vehicle for their transport to another location.

What is the significance of this transfer?

This transfer will lead to herbivores populating the Mukundara Hills Tiger Reserve ahead of the proposed shifting of two tigers to Mukundara.

What is Keoladeo National Park?

Keoladeo National Park or Keoladeo Ghana National Park is formerly known as the Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary is located in Bharatpur, Rajasthan.

It is a man-made and man-managed wetland. It was declared as a protected sanctuary in 1971. It is also a World Heritage Site.

One-third of the Park is a wetland with mounds, dykes and open water with or without submerged or emergent plants.

What is Mukundra Hills Tiger Reserve(TR)?

Mukundra Tiger Reserve(TR) is located near Kota, Rajasthan. The Mukundra Hills was declared a Wildlife Sanctuary in 1955 and a National Park (Mukundra Hills (Darrah) National Park) in 2004.

The reserve is located on the eastern bank of the Chambal River and is drained by its tributaries.

The park is situated in a valley formed by two parallel mountains viz. Mukundra and Gargola.

The Tiger Reserve constitutes 3 Wildlife Sanctuaries viz; Darrah, Jawahar Sagar, and Chambal.

Source: This post is based on the article “Boma technique adopted for translocating deer from Keoladeo” published in The Hindu on 21st Mar 2022.