Fact File Ranthambore National Park
Infrastructure
Inadequate
Constraints Staff
Of the total sanctioned strength of 214 posts, there are 20 vacancies. The staff
posted in the Reserve is old and traditional while wildlife management has emerged
as a science. It has become increasingly difficult to entrust them with tasks
requiring a certain level of training required to keep them fit to take coordinated
action against poachers and other miscreants.
The strike force of the flying squad is inadequate because a skeleton staff.
There is a lot of pressure for fuel wood from Sawai Madhopur and Khandar towns.
Women do most of the wood collection. Dealing with women offenders is difficult
in the absence of women staff.
Funds
The funds are generally received late and are inadequate for developmental works.
Grazing
There are 332 villages in and around Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve within a 5 km.
radius. The cattle pressure on the Reserve is as follows:
| Portions
of the Reserve |
Number
of Villages inside |
No.of
villages within 5 k.m |
Cattle
population |
Ranthambhore
National park
Sawai Mansingh Sanctuary
Kuaji close Area
Keladeve Sanctuary
|
4
4
0
15
|
123
40
23
146
|
51356
31290
8092
52730
|
| Total |
23 |
332 |
143468 |
There is a considerably large grazing pressure on the Reserve. The period July-October
is the cost problematic period since most of the cattle form the nearby billages
move into the forest of the Reserve at this time. The villagers persistently
attempt to invade the core area, i.e. Ranthambhore National Park. During 1998.99,
95 cases of illegal affected regeneration. The quality of grasses has deteriorated
in the growth of ungulate population.
Due to heavy grazing pressure, it has not been possible to constitute core areas
for Sawai Mansingh Sanctuary and Keladevi Sanctuary. The recurrent conflict
with the villagers on the mater of grazing in the Ranthambhore National Park
has alienated the villagers from the management.
Fire
Occasional cases.
Poaching of Fauna and Flora
Traditionally, the people of the Mogya, Kanjar, Banjara and Nat communities
are associated with poaching. Any well-organized effort to control poaching
is lacking. Several poaching cases go unreported because of poor communication
with the villagers.
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