Lemru Elephant Reserve

Lemru Elephant Reserve

Subject: Environment

Context: In a letter on June 26, the state Forest and Environment Department asked the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Wildlife) to make a presentation for decreasing the area of the proposed reserve from 1,995 sq km to 450 sq km.

Concept:

• The proposal for the reserve, in Korba The proposed Lemru elephant reserve is a natural elephant habitat with very few human habitations and has been an elephant bearing area from ancient times
• Chhattisgarh has two national parks, three tiger reserves, eight sanctuaries, and one biosphere reserve covering 11,310.977 sq km, which is 8.36% of its geographical area and 18.92% of its total forest area.

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• The Elephant reserve measuring 1048.30 sq. km, was notified in September 2011. Tamor Pingla Wildlife Sanctuaryis located in Surajpur District, Chhattisgarh, India.It is named after the Tamor Hill and Pingla Nalla
• The area, which is under Tamor, Khond and Pingla Ranges of the Surguja Jashpur Elephant Reserve Forest Division, consists of saland bamboo
• The sanctuary supports Asian elephants, Bengal tigers, Indian leopards, bears, Sambar deer, nilgai, chital, bison, four-horned antelope, chinkara, barking deer, wild boars, wild dogs, wolves, Golden jackals, Striped hyenas, hare, cobras, nag, pythons, red jungle fowl, brown jungle fowl and green pigeon.