Similarly, in the Central India and Eastern Ghats landscape, the minimum area of hyena presence declined to 91,072 sq km in 2018, from 1,04,453 km sq km in 2014. The Shivalik Hills and Gangetic Plains landscape in India spans across the states of Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Assam and is comprised of three parallel geological zones - the Shivaliks, the Bhabar tract and the Terai plains. “Conservation of striped hyena in this landscape requires attention,” it added. “Hyena seems to be more abundant in Suhlewa Wildlife Sanctuary and in the forests of south-eastern Uttar Pradesh rather than in the Shivalik-Bhabhar tracts of this landscape,” the report said. The species was present in Dudhwa and Sohagibarwa in 2010 but not in 2018-19, according to the latest report. Striped hyena distribution in the Shivalik Hills and Gangetic Plains landscape reduced to 1,054 square kilometres (sq km) in 2018, from 2,795 sq km in 2010. Here is a brief summary of the major co-predators’ status: The report is published every four years. Status of Tigers, Co-predators and Prey in India, 2018 was released on July 28, on the eve of Global Tiger Day. “In fact, what this shows is that if your management focus is only towards tigers, other species will lose,” he added. “What the situation calls into question is the idea that the tiger is the umbrella species and protecting it would ensure the conservation of all other species,” Abi T Vanak, senior fellow and convenor, Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation at Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bengaluru, said. The more the tigers, the healthier an ecosystem. In a way, tigers are seen as indicators of a healthy ecosystem. What this means is that by ensuring the survival of tigers, the apex predator in an ecosystem, one can also conserve the entire ecosystem and other species within it. The special attention given to tigers under Project Tiger was to make them a conservation umbrella species.
Their area has reduced by around 80 and 76 per cent respectively in the Western Ghats between 2010 and now. The status of jackals and wolves is even more worrying. The report gives the area of distribution of these species across the major landscapes - Shivalik Hills and Gangetic Plains, Central India and Eastern Ghats and lastly, the Western Ghats.įor species like the striped hyena, the area of occupancy has reduced by almost half in the Shivalik Hills and Gangetic Plains and the Western Ghats landscapes between 20. In fact, the conservation status of predators like the striped hyena, the Indian wild dog (dhole), jackals and wolves, is a cause of concern in most landscapes. While the number of tigers has increased by six per cent every year since 2006, the same is not true for the co-predators. The picture for sympatric or co-predators of the tiger in India’s forests is not as rosy as the big cats themselves, a new government report shows.
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