GUWAHATI: Kaziranga National Park (KNP) authorities have warned that the natural highlands in the adjacent Karbi Anglong hills the place animals from the World Heritage Site take shelter throughout flood are more and more being destroyed because of the indiscriminate stone quarrying task.
While the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) had in April this year requested for fast ban on mining actions in Karbi Anglong because it poses a direct danger to Kaziranga’s ecology, KNP’s newest evaluation of the stone extraction actions have reiterated risk to the secure space especially when the chance of flood looms large.
During high flood large collection of animals including elephants and rhinos strikes out of KNP and take shelter at the natural highlands of Karbi Anglong, around the southern boundary of Kaziranga.
The evaluation done by means of KNP, which could also be a tiger reserve, that one of the most stone quarries located proper at the animal corridors are affecting animals movement, damaging the flood plains of Kaziranga and natural highlands of Karbi Anglong.
The evaluation report compiled remaining month, made public by means of surroundings activist Rohit Choudhury through an RTI utility, got here at a time when KNP authorities are bracing up for the flood, that usually inundates almost 80% of 430 squarekm space. Although flood is yet to hit Kaziranga, animals especially large mammals like elephants in large herds have began moving to the highlands of Karbi Anglong with rain water filling up ratings of wetland throughout the secure space.
What has made the "unscientific" stone quarrying more damaging to KNP, the report identified that extracted materials are being dumped close to secure space.
The report mentioned that the extracted materials are dumped at as many as 38 sites between Kuthori and Bagori alongside the national highway 37. The distance between Kuthori and Bagori is simply 10 KM and are in proximity to the park boundary.
"Almost all the sites are maintained by individual households on their patta lands without any legal document permitting to hold such material," the report said.
The materials are dumped in those lands in guise of earth-filling, but in truth they're kept on the market, the report identified. The house owners have interaction labourers for keeping apart stones, pebbles and earth from the dumped material for selling it to patrons.
In April NTCA wrote to state govt inquiring for "immediate ban" on mining, quarrying and stone-crushing actions in the Kaziranga-Karbi Anglong landscape, after Choudhury complained to concerning the danger posed to Kaziranga because of indiscriminate mining.
Sources said that KNP authority’s newest evaluation has demonstrated that no motion has been taken especially by means of the 6th scheduled-administered Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council.
While the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) had in April this year requested for fast ban on mining actions in Karbi Anglong because it poses a direct danger to Kaziranga’s ecology, KNP’s newest evaluation of the stone extraction actions have reiterated risk to the secure space especially when the chance of flood looms large.
During high flood large collection of animals including elephants and rhinos strikes out of KNP and take shelter at the natural highlands of Karbi Anglong, around the southern boundary of Kaziranga.
The evaluation done by means of KNP, which could also be a tiger reserve, that one of the most stone quarries located proper at the animal corridors are affecting animals movement, damaging the flood plains of Kaziranga and natural highlands of Karbi Anglong.
The evaluation report compiled remaining month, made public by means of surroundings activist Rohit Choudhury through an RTI utility, got here at a time when KNP authorities are bracing up for the flood, that usually inundates almost 80% of 430 squarekm space. Although flood is yet to hit Kaziranga, animals especially large mammals like elephants in large herds have began moving to the highlands of Karbi Anglong with rain water filling up ratings of wetland throughout the secure space.
What has made the "unscientific" stone quarrying more damaging to KNP, the report identified that extracted materials are being dumped close to secure space.
The report mentioned that the extracted materials are dumped at as many as 38 sites between Kuthori and Bagori alongside the national highway 37. The distance between Kuthori and Bagori is simply 10 KM and are in proximity to the park boundary.
"Almost all the sites are maintained by individual households on their patta lands without any legal document permitting to hold such material," the report said.
The materials are dumped in those lands in guise of earth-filling, but in truth they're kept on the market, the report identified. The house owners have interaction labourers for keeping apart stones, pebbles and earth from the dumped material for selling it to patrons.
In April NTCA wrote to state govt inquiring for "immediate ban" on mining, quarrying and stone-crushing actions in the Kaziranga-Karbi Anglong landscape, after Choudhury complained to concerning the danger posed to Kaziranga because of indiscriminate mining.
Sources said that KNP authority’s newest evaluation has demonstrated that no motion has been taken especially by means of the 6th scheduled-administered Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council.
Mining destroys natural highlands where Kaziranga's animals take shelter during flood
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