First Time, Tiger Movement Recorded in Chilla-Motichoor Corridor, Rajaji National Park

&NewLine;<p>The Biggest and oldest wildlife corridor in Uttarakhand on the Dehradun-Haridwar-Rishikesh highway&comma; The Chila-Motichoor Corridor &lpar;corridor&rpar;&comma; has started buzzing again after nearly two decades&period; The tiger was caught in the camera trap while passing through this corridor under the flyover on the highway&period; The Forest Department considers it very important from the point of view of wildlife conservation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Due to the Dehradun-Haridwar-Rishikesh highway and railway track&comma; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;wildhawk&period;in&sol;rajaji-national-park-a-complete-guide&sol;">Rajaji Tiger Reserve Park<&sol;a> was divided into two parts&comma; eastern and western&period; As a result&comma; the movement of wildlife from one part of the park to another was stopped&period; While there were 34 tigers in the eastern part of the park&comma; only two tigresses were left alone in the western region&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Now the flyovers built on the highway have made the journey of humans comfortable as well as revived the Chilla-Motichur corridor&period; With the revival of this corridor&comma; the entire wildlife will be able to move freely throughout the park&period; The Rajaji Tiger Reserve is famous for wildlife and is the only tiger reserve in the country&comma; surrounded by populations from all sides&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading">Efforts to activate this corridor have been going on for two decades&period; <&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Efforts to activate the Chilla-Motichur corridor have been going on for more than two decades&period; For this&comma; the Khand village of Rishikesh was also displaced&period; After this&comma; three-ply overs were made on the highway in September 2021&period; Its results are now starting to show&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading">More than one lakh vehicles used to pass in a day<&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>According to an estimate by NHAI for the year 2019&comma; before the construction of the flyover&comma; 1&period;34 lakh vehicles used to pass through this part of the corridor on the Dehradun-Haridwar highway in a day&period; In such a situation&comma; this corridor was banned undeclared for wildlife&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading">Wildlife used to roam from this corridor to Nepal<&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Through the Chila-Motichoor corridor&comma; long-distance wildlife like elephants&comma; guldars&comma; and tigers used to move from Haridwar to Corbett through the Shivalik forest&period; Sometimes wildlife used to reach Nepal&period; But this movement was interrupted due to the highway&period; However&comma; in January this year&comma; the camera trap also captured photographs of elephants passing through this corridor&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow">&NewLine;<p>This is very special news not only for Uttarakhand but for wildlife lovers across the country&period; The Forest Department is extremely happy with this achievement&period; Now wildlife will be able to move easily from one part of the park to another&period; But at present there are some installations of the army adjoining Khand village in a part of this corridor&comma; which efforts are being made in the direction of displacing them&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<cite>Samir Sinha&comma; Chief Wildlife Warden&comma; Forest Department&comma; Uttarakhand<&sol;cite><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;

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