Volume : 10, Issue : 7, JUL 2024

HUMAN-WILDLIFE CONFLICT IN RANTHAMBORE NATIONAL PARK (RAJASTHAN) IN REFERENCE OF TIGERS AND LEOPARDS

RAJ KUMAR MEENA, DR. RAJENDRA KUMAR MEGHWAL

Abstract

We seek for a more comprehensive and Network wide approach for the data related to human-tiger conflicts and to reduction and mitigation. WWF-India is currently working on a broader human-wildlife conflict study, focusing on other wildlife besides tigers too. Since the formation of Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve in 1973, a total of 16 people has been killed by the tigers up to 2012. Among the total of 16 attacks, only 5 attacks occurred outside the park. Out of the total of 5 attacks outside, 3 were on the periphery of the park (very close to the reserve border) one was 14 km away and the other was 2.5 km away from the tiger reserve. Human–carnivore interactions often influence carnivore conservation and result in mitigating conflict. We are going to studied human–tiger (Panthera Tigris) conflicts in pastoral villages adjacent to Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve (RTR), Rajasthan, India for 10 years (2012–2022) and characterized and examined the causes of conflicts. The study includes the case of human-tiger conflict and main cause of human tiger conflict and resolutions to prevent this condition and government steps.

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