Raise tiger base camps to 125 within a month, panel tells Andhra Pradesh
A high-level committee has recommended that Andhra Pradesh increase its tiger base camps from 100 to 125 within a month to improve surveillance. The move follows a series of tiger deaths and aims to curb poaching activities in the Nagarjunasagar-Srisailam Tiger Reserve.
Why it matters
Strengthening wildlife protection infrastructure is essential for the survival of endangered species and the integrity of protected forest reserves.
Andhra Pradesh should strengthen its tiger protection network by increasing the number of base camps from around 100 to 125 and ensuring at least four field staff at every camp, a High-Level Committee constituted to examine recent tiger deaths has recommended.
Speaking to The Hindu , committee chairman P. Mallikharjuna Rao, IFS (retd.), and member-convener Rahul Pandey, IFS, said the expansion of base camps should be completed within one month. The government has already given in-principle approval for 25 new camps to bridge protection gaps. Until fresh recruitment is completed, existing personnel should be restructured and redeployed to provide security at the new camps, and recruitment should be taken up simultaneously.
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