Summary:
It contains 16 PAs with a size of 87 sqkm to 3,188 sqkm.Central India is a global-priority landscape for tiger conservation and contains about 31% of India’s tiger population. Nagpur: A latest study by three wildlife scientists has identified 567 types of barriers in 30 corridors in Central India landscape consisting of 3,84,508 sqkm spread across 16 protected areas (PAs) in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh. The study mapped these corridors and ranked them according to their restoration potential.“We associated barriers with infrastructure to show where mitigation measures can be targeted. We mapped 567 barriers within 30 linkages in this landscape of which 265 barriers intersect with infrastructure and include 694km of roads, 150km of railway, 48 reservoirs, and 10 mines. We found that of all the 16 PAs, corridors between Kanha-Pench, Satpura-Melghat, Kanha-Nagzira, Nagzira-Pench, and Pench-Umred-Tadoba have high quality and potential for tiger connectivity and should be maintained..