News Excerpt:
The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has recommended to the authorities that the Nugu Wildlife Sanctuary abutting the Bandipur Tiger Reserve be declared as a core critical tiger habitat.
About Nugu Wildlife Sanctuary:
- Nugu Wildlife Sanctuary is situated in Heggadadevanakote Taluka of Mysore district and comprises Lakshmanapura State Forest and adjacent revenue lands this sanctuary is situated north of Bandipur National Park.
- The backwaters of the Nugu Dam form part of the Nugu Wildlife Sanctuary and lie on the western side of the sanctuary.
- On the southwest side, the area touches Alaganchi State Forest, which comes under Bandipur National Park (Project Tiger Area).
- The Ministry of Environment, Forests, and Climate Change declared Nugu Wildlife Sanctuary an eco-sensitive zone due to excessive commercial tourism, aiming to protect dense elephant populations.
- The other Fauna found in this Sanctuary includes elephant, leopard, jungle cat, wild pig, spotted deer, sambar deer, barking deer, mouse deer, jackal, hare, common mongoose, common otter, small Indian civet, common palm civet, and porcupine.
National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA):
- The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has been constituted under section 38 L (1) of Wildlife The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA).
- It is a statutory body under the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change constituted under enabling provisions of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, as amended in 2006, for strengthening tiger conservation.
- It was established to reorganise the management of ‘Project Tiger’ and Tiger Reserves in the country.
