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Encroachment of M.P. National Park land continues unchecked
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- The Madhav National Park has claimed denotified land is unavailable for allotment to 39 tribal families displaced 20-years ago to make way for a tiger corridor, even though hundreds of others compensated for to vacate the Park continue to farm and encroach upon the corridor unchecked. Moreover, tigers are yet to be reintroduced in the park, let alone the corridor’s development.
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- About Madhav National Park
(1) It is situated in Shivpuri District of Gwalior division in northwest Madhya Pradesh.
(2) It was named after Madho Rao Scindia, the Maharaja of Gwalior belonging to the Scindia dynasty of the Marathas.
(3) With a varied terrain of wooded hills – the forest being dry, mixed and deciduous- and flat grasslands around the lake, it offers abundant opportunities of sighting a variety of wildlife.
(4) Animal Species: deer, nilgai, sambar, chausingha or four-horned antelope, blackbuck, sloth bear, Indian leopard and the common langur.
(5) Sakhya Sagar and Madhav Sagar lakes, created on Manier River in 1819, are two important biodiversity support systems in the park besides several perennial and seasonal streams and nullahs.
(6) Species that can be seen here are marsh or mugger crocodile, Indian python and the monitor lizard.
Sources
The Hindu