Prime Intention of the Blog

"People without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees and wildlife is almost as helpless".

I still remember my childhood days when I used to visit Dandeli a place where even my father started his professional career and also where my most of the relatives were staying.Even though I never brought up in Dandeli no one could stop me to go there since it was just two hours journey from my native. And during every visit I used to get the scoldings from my father and relatives since I used to spend most of the time in forests than in house.So as I grown up my visit to Dandeli became very less except twice or thrice in a year since I became busy with studies but always I had in my mind that I should contribute something to these magnificent forests which inspired me a lot to fall in love with the Conservation.So it is just an attempt from my side to create awareness to save these magnificent animals and landscapes they exist in.If this blog contributes in a small way to achieve this goal I will be the most happiest person in this world.
This blog mainly focuses towards conservation activities in and around Dandeli-Anshi Tiger Reserve.This blog doesn't provide any information regarding tourism and its related activities in and around Dandeli-Anshi Tiger Reserve.

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Sunday, December 26, 2010

Dandeli-Anshi Tiger Reserve Forest Guard Bags Second Prize at IISC Bangalore

Another pride has been added to Dandeli-Anshi Tiger Reserve.Now it is not because of any Conservation Issues but because it has made its Significance by participating and bagging award in the National Level conference.
                                       My best friend and Dandeli-Anshi Tiger Reserve's well known Forest Guard Mr.Chandrakant R Naik along with Kritika Gunaga,a High School student from KHEP School,Ambika Nagar have attended a Conference "Wetlands,Biodiversity and Climate Change" held at Indian Institute of Science,Bangalore from 22-24 December 2010.Both have given a Presentation on "NAMMA GRAMA"(My Village Biodiversity) and bagged second prize for this.

Friday, December 17, 2010

Man, leopard coexist in Khanapur jungles

 Khanapur could very well serve as model for authorities to resolve manleopard conflict that has been dogging forests.

Though Khanapur jungles boast a healthy leopard population, there have been few cases of the big cats straying into villages over the last three decades.


The reason is attributed to a well preserved habitat, prey base and awareness on the part of villagers.


There are dozens of hamlets in the pockets of Khanapur jungles. Though villagers have many stories of attacks by bears, bisons, elephants and snake bites, there has not been a single case of leopard attack.


A couple of years ago, Ramesh Shankar Patil, a gram panchayat member and resident of Chapoli village located deep in the Khanapur jungles was attacked by a bear and was compensated by the forest department. There are a dozen leopards moving around Chapoli and surrounding forests and are even spotted in the village at nights. Yet, they have never attacked human beings.


Deputy conservator of forests Girish Hosur says there are three reasons for mananimal conflicts. ''Lack of prey base, shortage of forest area and fragmentation of habitat,'' he says. In humananimal conflicts, the question about who is trespassing whose territory crops up, he says. Hosur says the leopard is a territorial animal and keeps to its territory which it marks with its urine. In most cases, humans have encroached forest areas and so wild animals like leopards have very little place to claim to be theirs. This is the reason for the conflict, he says.


As far as Khanapur jungles are concerned, it is huge, has a good prey base and has everything that ensures that leopards don't confront human beings, says Hosur. He says villagers too are aware of forest laws and prefer not to disturb wildlife. Though a couple of incidents of leopards attacking cattle had been report some time ago, they were attributed to cattle straying into the jungles, he says.

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Monday, December 6, 2010

Controversy Over Poaching Incident:

It is very bad to hear that the poachers who were arrested while poaching the wild boar have lodged police case against forest department staff who did their duty sincerely.Poachers have given the statement that they have been physically harassed by Forest staff.
                           It is very embarrassing to hear that poachers given such statement against forest staff.The forest staff did their duty timely and sincerely but facing such severe allegations.But however RFO Mr.Lohit denied all these allegations and told that forest staff didn't  harass them physically.


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Thursday, December 2, 2010

Nature Interpretation Camp in Dandeli-Anshi Tiger Reserve:

Dandeli Wildlife Division in association with Sahyadri Parisara Sangha is organizing Nature Interpretation Camp for School students from December 2 to December 11 at Kulgi.The main purpose of this program is to create awareness about Nature and wildlife to children from childhood.Dandeli Wildlife Division has selected 30 primary schools in Joyda Taluq which are surrounded by forests.Each day Discussions,Debates,Stage shows,Trekking,Safari will be organized for students in order to convince them about the importance of Forest and Wildlife Conservation.By this the students will put themselves into forest and wildlife conservation activities in the upcoming days,the main purpose behind the program, said Mr.Ravi Derekar who is the resource person of the camp.
                      The camp will be guided by Mr.Sunil Panwar,Deputy Conservator of Forests (Dandeli Wildlife Division) for 10 days.Each day 60 students will participate and avail the facility.We are planning to extend the program for High School and college students also,said Mr.Ravi Derekar.


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Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Poachers arrested near Dandeli-Anshi Tiger Reserve:

Three local people are held arrested for poaching the wild boar in Virnoli Range which is adjacent to Dandeli-Anshi Tiger Reserve.By getting the exact information , forest staffs Mr.Ashok Kamble,Mr.Ashok Naik and Mr.Dayanand have arrested the poachers and seized the weapons used for poaching the wild boar.Case has been lodged against all the three poachers named Malu Pavane,Sonu Mangade and Rajendra Desai of Kulgi village and produced to the court for further process.Investigation is under process,said Range Forest Officer Mr.Lohit.