{"id":36350,"date":"2018-11-02T12:28:53","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T06:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=36350"},"modified":"2018-11-02T12:28:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T06:58:53","slug":"tiger-reserves-to-remain-closed-during-monsoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tiger-reserves-to-remain-closed-during-monsoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger reserves to remain closed during monsoon:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/tiger-reserves-to-remain-closed-during-monsoon\/article19207641.ece\">Tiger reserves to remain closed during monsoon<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tourism zones falling in the national park areas of Ranthambhore and Sariska tiger reserves in Rajasthan will remain closed during monsoon in 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Details:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following a meeting of the State Wildlife Board\u2019s standing committee and Ranthambhore Tiger Conservation Foundation on June 9<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the Forest Department had issued orders to keep the tiger reserves open for tourism during July to September<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Forest Department has revised its orders after The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) took up the matter with the State government.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The orders of closure of tiger reserves will be applicable to the national park areas. The fringe areas will remain open for tourism activities.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The revised orders provide for complete closure of tourism zones 1 to 5 at Ranthambhore and two tourism zones at Sariska.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Contradicting views<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The NTCA has led emphasis that monsoon is the breeding season for wild animals especially tigers. Therefore, closure of the tiger reserves during monsoon is justified.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the State Wildlife Board had observed that the breeding of tigers extended throughout the year in Rajasthan, which is a low rainfall area.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has been pointed out that the zones 6 to 10 at Ranthambhore had been opened for tourism during monsoon in the past few years and no adverse effect on tigers and their conservation had been observed.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The NTCA, while identifying factors for closure during monsoon in its 2015 directive, had stated that the period for closure would be decided by the respective State governments.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00b7<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) was established in \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0December 2005 following a recommendation of the Tiger Task Force.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00b7<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Environment Minister is the Chairman of NTCA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00b7<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The NTCA performs an overarching supervisory and coordinating role<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00b7<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It performs the functions as provided by the Wildlife (Protection)Act, 1972<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiger reserves to remain closed during monsoon: Context: Tourism zones falling in the national park areas of Ranthambhore and Sariska tiger reserves in Rajasthan will remain closed during monsoon in 2017. Details: \u00a0\u00a0Following a meeting of the State Wildlife Board\u2019s standing committee and Ranthambhore Tiger Conservation Foundation on June 9th, the Forest Department had issued&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tiger-reserves-to-remain-closed-during-monsoon\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tiger reserves to remain closed during monsoon:<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704895273},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}