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| Athreva, V.R.; Navya, R.; Odden, M.; Linnell, J.D.; Karanth, K.U. | |
| A report on monitoring of the collared tigress in Brahmapuri Forest Division, Maharashtra | |
| 2012 Full Book | |
A young tigress rescued by the Forest Department from a canal, was collared using a GPS GSM collar and intensively monitored between 30th December and 25th March 2012 after she had moved into the Brahmapuri Forest Division. Analysis of her movements indicate that she travelled a very large distance, covering 454.65 km from the time of her release on 27th November 2012 to 25 March 2012 when the GPS battery stopped functioning. Her home range for the duration of monitoring, between 30th December and 25th March 2012, after she appeared to have settled in the human-use areas of Brahmapuri Forest Division was 459 km2 (using the Kernel method) and 431 km2 (using Minimum Convex Polygon method). The home range did not contain any protected area and was entirely a human-use landscape which also reports the presence of many other tigers, including breeding individuals. Although her home range encompassed villages, roads and croplands, she rarely moved close to villages. Her activity was also almost entirely nocturnal and she rested in dense foliage in the forest patches in the day. However at night, she used more open landscape, even crossing open fields. Half of her prey items which we could identify were wild boars. In some cases, we observed her sitting within 150 m of roads which were used by people and their domestic animals yet no untoward incident occurred. The landscape consists of many patches of rich forest and are likely to form an important habitat for the large cats and other wildlife, as well as corridors for dispersing tigers between protected areas in the region. It is also a high conflict area where attacks on humans occur. Thus it is recommended that more information is obtained on the conflict causing species in this landscape and measures to mitigate the increasing fragmentation of the forests of the region are planned. |
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