Tamil Nadu Launched Project Nilgiri Tahr with Rs 25 Crore Budget

Tamil Nadu Government has announced the ‘Nilgiri Tahr Project’, India’s first-of-its-kind initiative aimed at restoring the state animal’s original habitat and stabilizing its population. The ‘Nilgiri Tahr Project’ is a five-year program with a budget of Rs 25.14 crore.

It will also have a dedicated team chaired by the project director to deal with species conservation. The team will explore the possibility of undertaking captive breeding of the animals for re-introduction in forest patches where it has become locally extinct.

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Tamil Nadu Launched Project Nilgiri Tahr with Rs 25 Crore Budget- Key Points

• The government has ordered to conduct of synchronized surveys by the forest department across the Tahr range.
• The survey will include an understanding of movement patterns, habitat use and behavior, and radio-telemetry studies.
• The additional chief secretary of the environment, forest, and climate change department, Supriya Sahu informed us that this project was devised in line with Project Tiger and Project Elephant.
• The presence of Nilgiri Tahr has been confirmed in a total of 123 habitat fragments ranging in area from 0.04 sq km to 161.69 sq km.
• The species has become locally extinct in around 14% of its traditional habitat in the past few decades.

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