INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
ADILABAD: The forest department has identified National Highway 363 and the railway tracks in the area as impediments to free passage of
tigers into the core area of the Kawal Tiger Reserve (KTR) from Thadoba Andhari and Thippeshwar Tiger reserves bordering Maharashtra.The
forest department has proposed three underpasses or bridges at identified places for smooth passage of tigers on NH-363 and also at the
railway track in Komaram Bheem Asifabad (KBA) and Mancherial districts
and Maharashtra to Mancherial of Telangana
Road widening works are in progress and the third railway track is being laid
as a tiger reserve in 2012, lot of funds are being invested in the conservation of forests in KTR, but this is of no use so far
No tiger has made KTR its habitat till now
four-lane road is erected from Mancherial to Chandrapur
Forest conservator of Adilabad circle CP Vinod Kumar said NH363 and the railway tracks have become an impediment in the smooth passage of
are coming to a certain point but failing to cross the NH and railway tracks due to lack of underpasses and going back to their original
division by providing a safe passage to tigers into KTR from Kagaznagar forest division
Many forest areas in the Kagaznagar forest division fall under the buffer area of KTR
The tigers are migrating to Telangana borders from the Thadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve of Maharashtra.Forest officials say a fight is going on
among the migrated tigers for domination of individual forest territory
This problem has arisen with an increase in the migrated tiger population in the Kagaznagar forest division
There were incidents of a tiger and a leopard dying after being hit by trains while crossing the railway track on the outskirts of the Sipur
