Emergency Support for Tiger & Wildlife

Tiger Emergency Support to Kaziranga National Park for fighting exigencies caused by floods

In the year 2000, due to a series of breaches in the Himalayan upstream in Arunachal Pradesh caused floods in River Brahmaputra. As a result most of Kaziranga went underwater causing panic.

Three staff camps were washed away. Larger scale movement of animals to safer areas outside the park was already causing a serious problem for the park management as these areas lie outside the jurisdiction of the Park.

The possibility of serious floods that could have caused considerable damage at that point couldn’t be ruled out. The Park staff was already feeling the pressure on its resources. Considering the above imminent threat of serious problem due to floods in Kaziranga, WWF India TCP recommended that Kaziranga be provided the TEF support to tide over the consequences of floods.

YEAR 2000
NATURE OF SUPPORT- (Total Expenditure-Rs.4, 30,000/-)

• Provided casual workers for patrolling and manning extra temporary camps as well as rescue marooned animals.
• Mobile duty on the highway and hiring of vehicles. Construction of 5 temporary camps along the highway.
• Signage in N.H. to augment awareness for traffic.

YEAR 1998
NATURE OF SUPPORT

• Repair of three mechanized boats.
• Provided tranquilizing guns, fuels, disinfectants, batteries, labour charges etc.
• Informers Network.
• Contingency.

Emergency support to Panna Tiger Reserve
The WWF Tiger Conservation Programme supported Panna Tiger Reserve to cope up with devastating fire during the peak fire season in the year 2000-2001. This emergency support has helped in preventing much damage to the Tiger Reserve's ecology.

YEAR 2000-2001
NATURE OF SUPPORT

• Temporary employment of fire watchers.
• Temporary employment of fire fighting squad.
• Provided fire fighting equipments and drinking water containers, medicines etc.

Emergency Support to Dudhwa Tiger Reserve
Siltation was the major cause of devastation of the Sathiana grassland in Dudhwa in the year 2001. WWF India through emergency support helped in restoring the grasslands which are prime habitat of tigers.

YEAR 2001
NATURE OF SUPPORT

• Repair of D-4D tractor in order to harrow and burn and thereby suppress the coarse grasses which have come up in Sathiana Block of the Reserve which formed the biggest stronghold of Swamp Deer, the main prey species of tiger. The prevalence of coarse grass was due to heavy siltation.
• Desilting of drainage system of the Dudhwa Tiger Reserve.

Emergency support to Corbett Tiger Reserve
Corbett Tiger Reserve for fighting an emergency situation created by poaching. The Corbett Tiger Reserve has one of the best tiger populations in India. Additionally it also has the best tusker to cow elephant ratio in India.

The incidents of the elephant poaching in the year 2001 created a situation of emergency mainly due to the timing of the events which coincided with the creation of Uttaranchal within which all of the Corbett falls. The poachers as reported were connected to a major mafia gang and are using techniques that were new to area.

YEAR 2001
NATURE OF SUPPORT

• Provided funds for intelligence gathering network.
• Hiring of Jeeps and fuel etc.
• Logistics support for deployment of additional staff and volunteers.
• Ration to Field guides, forest personnel in assisting the operation.
• Repair of wireless sets.

Emergency Support to Ranthambore & Sariska Tiger Reserves
YEAR 2002
NATURE OF SUPPORT

• Due to severe drought situation for past four years, all the water sources in Ranthambore & Sariska Tiger Reserves were drying up. If it was not addressed immediately, most of the tiger prey species such as sambar, nilgai and wild pig were on the verge of being forced out of the Park in search of water and would face certain fate of being poached. In this way tigers were destined to face a far more serious crisis.
  
  
• WWF India Tiger Conservation Programme had been monitoring the situation and a sum of Rs. 300,000 was released immediately for drought relief and water management in Sariska. Later in March 2003 with the assistance of WWF International, and with the support of WWF UK and WWF Netherlands, WWF India TCP bore the cost of four deep bore wells in Ranthambore and two bore wells in Sariska Tiger Reserves. The wells helped in reducing the haulage and thus made it possible to fill up water sources in the Parks.
  

Support to Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary
YEAR- 2003
NATURE OF SUPPORT

• Tiger and Wildlife Division supported Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary to mitigate the emergency created out of man-elephant conflict in the form of electric fencing.