Precariously Striped: The importance of corridors for tigers in Maharashtra’s Sahyadri-Konkan region
Very little is known about tiger density or occupancy in the Western Ghats region of Maharashtra, even though a tiger reserve (Sahyadri TR) was notified recently (2010) in the landscape. With support from two CEPF-ATREE* Small Grants, we have now understood the occupancy of tigers in a 7000 km2 landscape stretching from Sahyadri Tiger Reserve up to the border of Goa and Karnataka states. Using robust tools for occupancy and corridor modelling, areas which have high occupancy of tigers, as well as areas that are important pinch-points in the corridor have been identified. Key findings from these two projects reveal that tiger occupancy is much higher in the Radhanagri Wildlife Sanctuary and Tillari dam catchment and that the corridor connecting these regions to Sahyadri Tiger Reserve is crucial for tiger dispersal. Important threats that can break this corridor include newly proposed wind farms, mining, dam projects, hill stations, and highways. This report was published by Girish Arjun Punjabi, Advait Edgaonkar and Jayant Kulkarni. Link to newsletter
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