Telangana has two Tiger Reserves– Amrabad Tiger Reserve in Nagarkurnool and Nalgonda districts and Kawal Tiger Reserve, encompassing Nirmal, Mancherial, Adilabad and KB Asifabad districts.
According to the Convention on Biological Diversity, management effectiveness evaluation (MEE) is defined as an assessment of how well protected areas are being managed – primarily the extent to which management is protecting values and achieving goals and objectives.
Both tiger reserves in the state, Amrabad Tiger Reserve and Kawal Tiger Reserve, scored 71.09 per cent and 60.16 per cent in MEE ranking with a ‘good’ rating. In the previous year’s rating, both tiger reserves were rated ‘fair’.
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