September 15
Friday, September 23, 2011
MALARIA HITS ANTI-POACHING EFFORTS- INDIA
Malaria has affected management of Pakke Tiger Reserve in Arunachal Pradesh. From 2006 to 2009 over 70 per cent of the forest staff in the reserve, which lies in a protected area in the Eastern Himalayan global biodiversity hotspot, suffered from malaria. Its treatment cost park managers nearly three per cent of their total budget besides an annual loss of 44,160 man hours of anti-poaching effort.
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