Guest guest Posted July 30, 2005 Report Share Posted July 30, 2005 Central zoo authority has a new brief SUROJIT MAHALANOBIS http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-1185971,curpg-2.cms TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ FRIDAY, JULY 29, 2005 09:46:26 PM ] Surf 'N' Earn -Sign innow NEW DELHI: The Central Zoo Authority has got a new brief. The 6-member technical committee on wildlife conservation of the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) asked the CZA to finance for building infrastructure to preserve, research and monitor six prioritised endangered species. Worried over fast declining population of these species snow leopard, red panda, lion-tailed macaque, western tragopan, pygmy hog and Asiatic lion the committee also wants to carry out the ongoing Planned Conservation Breeding Programmes (PCBPs) in phased manner, as and when the founder-population of the species are found. The 10-year-old committee at present has RPS Katwal, director of wildlife preservation as chairman. Five members are JR Singh, MoEF's internal finance director, PR Sinha, former CZA member-secretary and currently chief of the Wildlife Institute of India (WII), Dr LN Acharya, a retired veteran in veterinary sciences, SK Patnaik, a retired additional chief conservator of forests and chief wildlife warden and SC Sharma, a former CZA member-secretary. At an exclusive to TNN, CZA member-secretary BR Sharma said Friday, " The new brief will help us monitor the ongoing programmes. The same for other species will be taken up in consultation with state governments as per availability of founder-population and ex-situ facilities. " The committee, however, has asked Dehra Dun-based Wildlife Institute of India to maintain the studbooks for the programme. Central zoo authority has a new brief SUROJIT MAHALANOBIS TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ FRIDAY, JULY 29, 2005 09:46:26 PM ] Surf 'N' Earn -Sign innow <<Previous| The brief has been separated because the specialised institute has infrastructure to maintain studbooks best and also because the CZA is already overworked with a number of long-term conservation projects and other programmes, one of which is the vexed circus animals rescue centre constrction and organisation. The committee refrained from estimating costs on specieswise conservation projects. Asked about it, Sharma said, " These are non-ending ongoing programmes. Costing cannot be limited. Today we have two animals to work with, tomorrow we may have 50. It all depends on what kind of founder-population of the endangered animals you get. We have to find out specialists on these animals who know about specialities, habits, lifestyle of these animals, or have cultured in them. " The CZA is looking forward to natural population growth of these or similar endangered animals in the wild. " If that's possible, these programme will not be required. Let's hope this programme become unnecessary in near future. Let's hope Nature evolves herself to increase the population of these endangered species, " said Sharma. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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