Over 6000 trees illegally cut in Corbett Reserve

Over 6000 trees illegally cut in Corbett Reserve

Subject : Environment

Context : The much-awaited tiger safari project of the Uttarakhand government is under scanner after a Forest Survey of India (FSI) report stated that over 6,000 trees were illegally cut in the Corbett Tiger Reserve (CTR) against the permission for 163 for the Pakhru Tiger Safari.

Concept :

Forest Survey of India:

• FSI is a national organization responsible for the assessment and monitoring of the forest resources of India regularly.
• It functions under the Ministry of Environment and Forests and climate change.
• It is headquartered in Dehradun, Uttarakhand.
• It was founded in 1981.
• FSI is one of the major national survey organizations in India.
• Indian state of forest report (ISFR) is an assessment of India’s forest and tree cover, published every two years by the Forest Survey of India under the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change.
• The first survey was published in 1987, and ISFR 2021 is the 17th.
• The organization’s precursor was the ‘Pre-investment Survey of Forest Resources’ (PISFR), a project started in 1965 with aid from UNDP and FAO.

Jim Corbett National Park

• Jim Corbett National Park is the oldest national park in India and was established in 1936 as Hailey National Park to protect the endangered Bengal tiger.
• It is located in Nainital district and Pauri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand and was named after hunter and naturalist Jim Corbett.
• The Park was the first to come under the Project Tiger initiative.
• The Park encompasses the Patli Dun valley formed by the Ramganga river.
• Ramganga, Sonanadi, Mandal, Palain and Kosi are the major rivers flowing through the Corbett National Park.
• The national park is a protected area covered by the World Wide Fund (WWF) for Nature under their Terai Arc Landscape Program.