Question: What is Lemru Elephant Reserve?
(a) Chattisgarh
(b) Uttar Pradesh
(c) Tamilnadu
(d) Orissa
Answer: (a)
Related Facts:
- Lemru Elephant Reserve is in Chhattisgarh,
- In a letter on June 26, 2021 the state Forest and Environment Department asked the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Wildlife) to make a presentation for decreasing the area of the proposed reserve from 1,995 sq km to 450 sq km.
- The proposal for the reserve, in Korba district, was passed unanimously by the Assembly in 2005 and got central approval in 2007. Lemru is one of two elephant reserves planned to prevent human-animal conflict in the region, with elephants moving into Chhattisgarh from Odisha and Jharkhand. Its area was then proposed to be 450 sq km.
- A letter from the then PCCF described the reserve as part of an elephant corridor that connects Lemru (Korba), Badalkhol (Jashpur), Tamorpingla (Surguja). “Unless the elephant corridor links all these areas, it will not be effective,” he wrote to his officers, asking them to start the process of notification after the central approval.
- In September 2011, the then BJP government issued a notification for setting up the reserve across 1,143 sq km, according to the June 26, 2021 letter from the Forest and Forest Department.
- The current Congress government, in a Cabinet meeting in August 2019, decided to increase the area further, to 1,995 sq km. But last month came the Forest Department’s letter to the PCCF (Wildlife) for reducing the area to 450 sq km.
BY: AMIT GUPTA