Authorities seek to widen a road that would cut wildlife corridors and put the future sustainability of three tiger reserves at risk
whether the tigers of Panna are under threat of being displaced by a dam,the tigers of nearby Kanha, Pench, and Navegaon Nagzira tiger reserves in the two central Indian states of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra are in danger from a highway.
The National Highways Authority of India proposes to widen a 50-km (31-mile) stretch of road to a four-lane divided highway connecting Jabalpur,Madhya Pradesh, with Nagpur, and Maharashtra. While allowing humans to hurtle between these two cities,the road slices two tiger corridors: Pench-Nagzira corridor in Maharashtra and the Pench-Kanha corridor in Madhya Pradesh. Although National Highway 7 (NH7) exists already, widening it will aggravate the problem it poses to wildlife. Central Indian forests hold approximately 33% of India’s tigers, and 688 of them.
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Source: theguardian.com