BENGALURU: A contemporary document by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), on the forest-fire incidents that happened in Bandipur Tiger Reserve in February, has urged wooded area fires to be claim a national crisis.
The document by Rajendra G Garawad, assistant inspector basic of wooded area, NTCA (southern zone), Bengaluru, is based on box visits between February 25 and 27 to evaluate the affect of the hearth on the wildlife within the reserve.
“NTCA might believe suggesting the ministry of atmosphere, wooded area and local weather trade (MoEF & CC) to claim the wooded area fires as national crisis as it's going to result in method of a national-level coverage, tips for wooded area fireplace and investment make stronger for crisis management to the affected states,” the document added.
The document has also referred to as for reorganisation of the existing management of Bandipur tiger reserve to include no less than two to 3 posts of deputy administrators, who can assist the field director within the tiger conservation management. “Currently, nearly the entire workplace and box work has to be carried out by the field director. As a outcome, the office-bearer is not able to dedicate enough time for right kind planning and implementation of more than a few time-bound management interventions,” the document added.
The document, then again, has not blamed any person for the hearth incident and best analysed the spread, affect and important measures to tackle such incidents someday. NTCA officers have observed that the hearth in Bandipur had not burnt the wooded area area uniformly as components akin to availability of the biomass, wind speed, soil moisture content and ambient air temperature performed their function within the blaze.
“Even within the completely burnt spaces of dry deciduous wooded area patches, the bottom fireplace had not affected the standing bushes except the snags and other deadwood lying on the wooded area ground. During the field seek advice from, the workforce didn’t come throughout any carcass of enormous mammal. However, there is a possibility that smaller lifeforms like amphibians and species with restricted mobility might be suffering from the wooded area fireplace,” the document added.
Digitse fireplace traces
The document has also urged introduction and maintenance of 2200km of fire line (a strip of open land in wooded area to curb the spread of fire) inside the tiger reserve along the inter-state border between Bandipur and Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, Tamil Nadu. “The present fireplace traces must be digitised in geographic information gadget (GIS) domain to plot fireplace management activities. Repeated burning of fire traces in susceptible area will scale back the fuel load,” it added.
The document also calls for a comprehensive fireplace management plan for the tiger reserve. “The plan must come with information about fire-prone spaces and their mapping, present fire-line network, requirement of guy power for managing fires, mock drills for box workforce, strategies to be followed for holding fireplace and post-fire management interventions of affected wooded area spaces,” it added.
Other measures urged
Awareness campaigns with native communities from villages or wooded area spaces susceptible for wooded area fires
Use of alerts issued by Forest Survey of India
Procurement of logistics required for fire-fighting within the tiger reserve
Holding inter-state coordination meetings at regular durations with neighbouring states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala
Proper management of media by offering factual details about the wooded area fireplace
The document by Rajendra G Garawad, assistant inspector basic of wooded area, NTCA (southern zone), Bengaluru, is based on box visits between February 25 and 27 to evaluate the affect of the hearth on the wildlife within the reserve.
“NTCA might believe suggesting the ministry of atmosphere, wooded area and local weather trade (MoEF & CC) to claim the wooded area fires as national crisis as it's going to result in method of a national-level coverage, tips for wooded area fireplace and investment make stronger for crisis management to the affected states,” the document added.
The document has also referred to as for reorganisation of the existing management of Bandipur tiger reserve to include no less than two to 3 posts of deputy administrators, who can assist the field director within the tiger conservation management. “Currently, nearly the entire workplace and box work has to be carried out by the field director. As a outcome, the office-bearer is not able to dedicate enough time for right kind planning and implementation of more than a few time-bound management interventions,” the document added.
The document, then again, has not blamed any person for the hearth incident and best analysed the spread, affect and important measures to tackle such incidents someday. NTCA officers have observed that the hearth in Bandipur had not burnt the wooded area area uniformly as components akin to availability of the biomass, wind speed, soil moisture content and ambient air temperature performed their function within the blaze.
“Even within the completely burnt spaces of dry deciduous wooded area patches, the bottom fireplace had not affected the standing bushes except the snags and other deadwood lying on the wooded area ground. During the field seek advice from, the workforce didn’t come throughout any carcass of enormous mammal. However, there is a possibility that smaller lifeforms like amphibians and species with restricted mobility might be suffering from the wooded area fireplace,” the document added.
Digitse fireplace traces
The document has also urged introduction and maintenance of 2200km of fire line (a strip of open land in wooded area to curb the spread of fire) inside the tiger reserve along the inter-state border between Bandipur and Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, Tamil Nadu. “The present fireplace traces must be digitised in geographic information gadget (GIS) domain to plot fireplace management activities. Repeated burning of fire traces in susceptible area will scale back the fuel load,” it added.
The document also calls for a comprehensive fireplace management plan for the tiger reserve. “The plan must come with information about fire-prone spaces and their mapping, present fire-line network, requirement of guy power for managing fires, mock drills for box workforce, strategies to be followed for holding fireplace and post-fire management interventions of affected wooded area spaces,” it added.
Other measures urged
Awareness campaigns with native communities from villages or wooded area spaces susceptible for wooded area fires
Use of alerts issued by Forest Survey of India
Procurement of logistics required for fire-fighting within the tiger reserve
Holding inter-state coordination meetings at regular durations with neighbouring states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala
Proper management of media by offering factual details about the wooded area fireplace
Bandipur fire: Report wants forest fires be declared national disaster
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