Steps to protect Gharials
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The Gharial is a critically endangered and unique crocodilian species of ... The goal of our project is to prevent its extinction. Gharial ...☺️
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The broad strategy adopted for rehabilitation of crocodiles was to protect them in their natural habitats, to rebuild the population quickly through captive breeding (rear and release), and to build up trained personnel for the job. The broad objectives of activities under crocodile project were the following.
(a) To protect the remaining population of crocodilians in their natural habitat by creating sanctuaries.
(b) To rebuild natural population quickly through 'grow and release' or 'rear and release' technique involving the following phases of operation.
· Collection of eggs from natural nests as soon as these were laid,
· Incubation of these eggs under ideal temperature and humidity maintained in artificial hatcheries,
· Hatching and rearing the young crocodilians in ideal captive-husbandry conditions,
· Marking and releasing young crocodiles in protected areas, and
· Assessing the result of release along with protection of the released crocodiles.
(c) To promote captive breeding.
(d) To take-up research to improve management. Some of the major research activities have been in the following directions.
· Interpretation of the various types of data collected during survey and census.
· Determination of parameters for maximum success in egg collection, egg incubation, hatching, rearing and release, including husbandry aspects on feeding, food conversion and growth.
· Study of habitat features and population structure.
· Study of behavioural biology including reproduction, thermo-regulation, feeding, water-orientation, locomotion etc.
(e) To build up a level of trained personnel for better continuity of the project through trainings imparted at the project-sites and through the erstwhile Central Crocodile Breeding and Management Training Institute, Hyderabad.
(f) To involve the local people intimately through the following:
· The development of a strong level of acceptance of the project by the people, by locating the projects in rural areas where people could both see and participate in the entire programme.
· Protect the immediate and long-term interests of fishermen who reside within the sanctuaries, and whose livelihood depends on fishing, by, if necessary, providing an alternative source of income that was not detrimental to the conservation aims.
· Extend the conservation programme to village-level, commercial crocodile farming, so that people could earn an income from conserving crocodiles and their habitats.
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