Panna Tiger Reserve 2011
People who follow tiger conservation probably know that the Panna Tiger Reserve was tigerless by December 2008. This was due to poaching. A fresh strategy had to be found. I am reading an article in the Feline Conservation Federation magazine of May/June 2011 (yes about one year old) by Shekhar Kolopaka. He was brought in to help devise new strategies to protect the tiger and Panna wildlife generally. What comes across are the enormous hurdles. There seems to be a general lack of interest in involvement by people local to the park in addition to many other problems such as an inability to stamp out poaching. Local hunters hunt local wildlife and that includes tiger prey or the tiger itself. The tiger carcass is very valuable. Mr Kolopaka started initiatives such as: Expanding the Panna Tiger Reserve by introducing a buffer zone . There is also talk of creating a corridor joining three national parks in the area. Expanding the reserve is bound to encounter general resistance part...