management practices carrried out for conservation of wild flora and fauna. conservation strategies carried out in kaziranga national park.

1. MANAGEMENT PRACTCES of PROTECTEDAREAS
with special reference to North East India.

2. WILDLIFE CONSERVATION
AND MANAGEMENT
 Concept of wildlife conservation has been
around since ancient times.
 Restrictions on taking game are mentioned
in the Bible, first official hunting season
may have been established in the 13th
century by Kubla Kahn.
 Wildlife managers continuously monitor
birth and death rate of various species
and condition of their habitat. This
provides data needed to set hunting
regulations and determine if other wildlife
management practices are needed to
conserve wildlife species.
Fig: poaching effect on
Kaziranga National Park

3. WHAT ARE WILDLIFE
MANAGEMENT PRACTICES?
 Defn: Improvement of wildlife habitat quality,
increase habitat space and protection of
wildlife from any other disinating factors etc
are referred to as wildlife management
practices.
 Types: Regular burning practice in wildlife
manipulation, upgradation of wildlife
protected areas, establishment of anti
poaching camp to ensure security of wildlife,
corridors and highlands etc.
 Captive breeding programme and
reintroduction programme have been carried
out in north east region as a part of wildlife
management practices.

4. BURNING PRACTICE
 Regular practice in North East
India.
 Carried out to improve habitat
quality.
 To maintain the stable status of
successional stages of habitat
to conserve target wildlife
species. Fig: Burning practice

5. HABITAT MANIPULATION
 Important practice of wildlife
management in North East India.
 In Kaziranga National Park large area
has been extended towards Karbi
Anglong and River Brahmaputra.
 Area of Kaziranga National Park has
been extended from 40 sq km to 870
sq km recently.
 Removal of excessive aquatic
hydrophytes from wet land of orang
national park helped to increase
water space for aquatic animals.
Fig: shredding of field to
extend area of national
park

6. UPGRADATION OF WILDLIFE
PROTECTED AREA STATUS
 Large number of sanctuaries of
North East India have been
converted to national park. Eg.
Pakke Tiger Reserve, Arunachal
Pradesh has been converted to
Pakhui Wildlife Sanctuary recently.
 Dihing Patkai Wildlife Sanctuary, East
and North Karbi Anglong Wildlife
Sanctuary, Barail Wildlife Sanctuary,
Nambar Wildlife Sanctuary have
been declared wildlife sanctuary
recently.
Fig: Pakke Tiger Reserve
later converted to Pakhui
Wildlife Sanctuary

7. ESTABLISHMENT OF ANTI
POACHING CAMP
 Number of anti poaching camp
have been increased recently to
protect the wildlife from various
wildlife conservation threats.
 In Kaziranga National Park the
number of forest range
increased from 4 to 5 namely
Kohori, Bagori, Burha Pahar,
Agoratoli, Biswanath range.
Fig: anti poaching camp
set up in Kaziranga

8. ESTABLISHMENT OF
CORRIDORS AND HIGHLANDS
 Increase of wildlife corridors to increase
the area of coverage in a particular
wildlife habitat .Wildlife corridors help
the wildlife species to move from low
lying areas to the highland during flood
season.
 2 wildlife corridors have been identified
in Kaziranga namely Panbari and
Haldibari.
 Establishment of highland within
wildlife protected areas as in Pabitara
Wildlife Sanctuary and Kaziranga
National Park is an important
management practice.
Fig: Kanchanjuri corridor,
Kaziranga National Park

9. CONSERVATION AND
BREEDING OF RED PANDA
 Captively breeded in Padmaja Naidu
Himalayan Zoological Park, Darjeeling,
West Bengal and Himalayan Zoological
Park, Gangtok, Sikkim.
 Brought from Darjeeling to Nainital in
November 25, 2014 named Rahul and
Sonam.
 Onlypair of red panda being brought in
Nainital zoo 2 years ago has been
successfully breeding by having two
babies by June 2015 and two more babies
by July last year.
Fig: captive breeding of
panda in Nainital zoo.

10. VULTURE CAPTIVE
BREEDING
 Vulture conservation and breeding centre
at Rani, Guwahati.
 The centre set up by Bombay Natural
History Society in collaboration with the
Assam forest department, was the first to
be set up in Assam in 2007 for carrying out
the conservation breeding programme for
two endangered species of vulture :white
backed vulture(3) and slender billed
vulture(25).
 Before releasing the captive breed
fledglings in the natural environment
,steps would be taken to make it a
diclofenac free zone(a killer drug).
Fig: pat for captive
breeding of vulture at Rani,
Guwahati

11. CAPTIVE BREEDING OF
Labeo punguisa.
 Captively breeded at the hatchery
premises of Eco camp, ABACA, Nameri,
Assam in PPP mode for a period of three
years since 2012.
 In the month of July, 2015, both the
males and female fish were found to
attain sexual maturity and induced
breeding was carried out.
 Total of 3.7 to 4 lakhs eggs were
produced resulting 1.9 lakh spawn.
 Carried out by IACR DCFR, Bhimtal and
ABACA.
Fig: matured female of
L.punguisa
Fig: rearing of fry in Nameri
National Park, Assam

12. CAPTIVE BREEDING OF
PYGMY HOG
 The project began with six wild hogs
captured from Manas for captive breeding.
 Taken to a custom built research centre in
Guwahati , Assam where the number
increased to 13 by 1996 by 2001 the number
increased to 77.
 Another breeding centre was opened in
Potasali, near the Nameri National Park.
 For the next step, 3 reintroduction sites
were selected after careful research :
Barnadi Wildlife Sanctuary(16 hogs released
in 2016- 2017), Orang National Park(59 hogs
released in 2011-2015, and Sonai Rupai
Wildlife Sanctuary.
Fig: captive breeding of
pygmy hog at Nameri
National Park

13. CAPTIVE BREEDING OF BURMESE
MOUNTAIN TORTOISE
 Breeded at Dimapur, Nagaland.
 With special focus on conservation
breeding of the endangered Burmese
tortoises in captivity, Nagaland
Zoological Park hosted the first ever
workshop on ‘Turtle husbandry and
conservation breeding for keepers
from selected North East India zoos’
on April 23.
 Present captive population of 13
Burmese mountain tortoise.
Fig: resource persons and NZP
officials with participants of
workshop on conservation
breeding of tortoise held at
Nagaland Zoological Park on
April 23, 2018

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