Following the Supreme Court order to ban tourist activitiesin the core zone of the Tiger Reserves in the country, government of Tamil Nadu
has directed the officials to close down tourists activities in three of the tiger
reserves in the state until further order from the Supreme Court.
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| Pilgrim camps made inside KMTR during pilgrim season |
The government authorities has informed that three tiger
reserves – Mudumalai in Udagamandalam, Kalakkadu-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve inTirunelveli and Anamali near Pollachi should not allow tourist activities in
their core zones.
Following the order, the tourists facilities in these tiger reserves
are now are closed.
The tourist activities as well as pilgrim activities in the corearea of these reserves have made huge amount of human intervention in the area
which has disturbed these forests which are the last resorts of the vanishing
Tiger species.
However it is not yet clear if the order actually apples to the
seasonal pilgrim activities happening in the tiger reserves like Mundanthurai which
is part of Kalakkad Mundanthurai in Tamil Nadu and Sabarimala in Periyar Tiger Reserve
in Kerala. Central government has formulated a set of guidelines to control pilgriminflux into forest areas, but it is yet to be practiced by the states.
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