Designation of Nauradehi and Veerangana Durgavati wildlife sanctuary as Tiger Reserves in Madhya Pradesh, India: Advancing landscape-level biodiversity conservation

Landscape surrounding and existing withina protected area has a vital role inbiodiversity conservation.Landscape conservation facilitates in bringing all the stakeholders on a single platform to collaborate their ideas on managing important biodiversity areas for long-term sustainability.Significant efforts have been made for themanagement and conservation of biodiversity-richareas across the larger landscapes. Declaring Nauradehi Wildlife Sanctuary and Veerangana Durgavati Wildlife Sanctuary as Tiger Reserve is noteworthy because they have great ecological and conservation values. The declaration of these sanctuaries as a tiger reserve shall strengthen the landscape management approach, facilitate the population of tigers to move across a large landscape,and establish their wider territories for gene flow. It is also important to document and observe in the next few years, how the tigers adapt and how thedevelopment of the area would help the locals without affecting conservation.