1. Workshop on Wildlife Conflict
Management
Patna , Bihar,
27 August , 2015
Dr S., Rajesh IFS
Asst. Inspector General of Forests
National Tiger Conservation Authority
New Delhi
2. Why SOPs
• Makes things easier to perform and deliver
• More predictability in the task performance,
• Hone out the skills, raise the standard of
performance
• Reduction in executive errors and failures
• Service quality control and performance
assessment
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4. Standard Operating
Procedure to Deal
with Emergency
Arising due to
Straying of Tigers in
Human Dominated
Landscapes.
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5. A quick walk through….
• Responsible Authorities – Filed Director / PA
Manager / Divisional Forest Officer / Deputy
Conservator of Forests / Wildlife Warden
• State Level – Chief Wildlife Warden
• Monitoring team and continuous assessment
• Updating with NTCA/advice/resoruces
• Mandatory legal compliances for the
procedures
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6. A quick walk through….
• Constitution of monitoring committee –
CWLW / NTCA Representative / Vet/NGO /
PRA / FD- Chairman.
• Establishment of identity of tiger – Camera
trapping / NRCTPT comparison
• Development of data base on incidences /
historical analysis.
• Conformation behaviour pattern -
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7. A quick walk through….
• Setting up camera traps – Establishment of
tiger id
• Protection of poisoning / safe guarding the kill
• PIPs to monitor the daily movement of the
animal
• Co ordination with police and executive
magistrates
• Declaration of 144 under CrPC for the locality
to reduce the risk levels
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8. A quick walk through….
• send alters to the concerned district
authorities
• Chemical immobilization when trapping
attempts are failed
• Details for chemical immobilization are
elaborated
• injured / incapacitated tigers to be sent to
zoo- not to be released back to wild
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9. A quick walk through….
• tigers certified by the committee need to be
released back to the wild after radio collaring and
to be kept under continuous monitoring
• a tiger should be eliminated by invoking the
Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, if it is not
habituated for causing human death – to be
ascertained as per the procedure
• healthy tiger/encumbered tigress occupying a
sugar cane field or similar habitat-
lure/immobalize and release
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10. A quick walk through….
• tigers certified by the committee need to be
released back to the wild after radio collaring and
to be kept under continuous monitoring
• a tiger should be eliminated by invoking the
Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, if it is not
habituated for causing human death – to be
ascertained as per the procedure
• healthy tiger/encumbered tigress occupying a
sugar cane field or similar habitat-
lure/immobilize and release with R collars
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11. A quick walk through….
• Media briefing at definite intervals by
authorised persons
• Tiger population details to be discussed only
after consultation with NTCA
• Use only properly designed suitable cages and
transport mechanism which cause least stress
• Final decision is of the CWLW but to be as per
the powers and procedures
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12. Standard Operating Procedure
for Active Management Towards
Rehabilitation of Tigers from
Source areas at the Landscape.
• Incident Atal to population
management
• Population to be managed
according to the carrying
capacity
• Rehabilitation of excess
between the landscapes
• Reduces the risks of
straying to tigers
• To be done in consultation
with NTCA
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13. Standard Operating
Procedure to Deal with
Orphaned / Abandoned Tiger
Cubs and Old / Injured Tigers
• To deal with special cases
• Incidental to deal with the
special cases
• Complements the efforts to
contain human tiger
conflcts
• Linkage to tiger safaris
• To be exceutied in
consulation with NTCA
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14. Application of handy technologies
• GIS based monitoring of movements of the
animals
• Evaluate the habitat and animal behavioural
dynamics
• Develop e surveillance in the sanative areas
after sensitivity mapping
• Scope of use of drones in habitat monitoring
and in special situations
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15. Proactive management
• Understaing the tiger population dyanamics
• Extara monitoring during the breeding
seasons
• Develpement of confiede amaoung the stake
holers
• Learning form the past
• Application of technology
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