The Nandhaur Wildlife Sanctuary is inching towards getting the status of a tiger reserve. The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has seen the point of the officials of Nandhaur Wildlife Sanctuary that falls under Haldwani forest division, in regard to declaring the said sanctuary a tiger reserve.
The authorities of the NTCA have already visited the sanctuary here in Haldwani and discussed the modalities about how the process could be facilitated for granting the tiger reserve status to the said sanctuary.
A team of experts from the NTCA has already visited here to see whether the sanctuary could be converted into a tiger reserve, said PC Arya, SDO, Nandhaur Wildlie Sanctuary, while talking to The Pioneer.
Following the directions of the NTCA team, a draft has been proposed and soon it will be submitted to the NTCA for granting the status of a tiger reserve to the said sanctuary, Arya further said. It is worth mentioning that paucity of fund is one of the major factors that has necessitated for bringing the Nandhaur Wildlife Sanctuary in Haldwani forest division under the tiger reserve category.
As the forest officials concerned informed, no fund has been allocated to carry out conservation works even after about three years since declaration of the Nandhaur valley as a wildlife sanctuary.