MANAGEMENT OF BUXA TIGER RESERVE, WEST BENGAL, INDIA

摘要

Buxa Tiger Reserve is situated in the foothills of the Eastern Himalayas in Jalpaiguri District of West Bengal. The reserve lies between latitudes 26°30′ and 26°5′ N and longitudes 89°20′ and 89°55′ E. It was constituted in 1983 as India's fifteenth tiger reserve. The total area of the reserve is 760.87 km~2, of which 117.1 km~2 comprises the national park, 268 km~2 make up the wildlife sanctuary and 375.8 km~2 is reserve forest. It has 35 blocks in reserve forest with 195 compartments and 19 blocks in protected forest and unclassed state forest. The project site is fringed by 34 tea gardens, and there are 46 revenue villages on the western and southern sides (within 2 km from the reserve's boundary) with a human population of 255,000. There are 37 forest villages and 4 Forest Department (F.D.) holding hamlets within the reserve, having a population of 20,000. This population has a great ethnic diversity with a fairly high representation of Scheduled Castes and Tribes.