Blackbucks: India
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The blackbucks of the Aravalis
The Times of India, May 28, 2016
The Haryana forest department has embarked on an ambitious plan to create a habitat to reintroduce blackbucks in the Aravalis over an area of 140 hectares in the Sarbasipur reserve forest near Farrukhnagar, around 25km from Gurgaon.
Blackbucks thrived in the Haryana Aravali region about four decades ago, but eventually died out because of change in vegetation into a closed canopy forest (thick forest).The animals prefer grassland forest. The forest department also hopes to introduce other species of the deer family through this initiative.
“The reserve forest is near Sultanapur National Park.Historically, this area was used as a salt pan. After the practice discontinued, the area turned into a scrub forest and later open forest through process of natural succession,“ said a forest department official. “This area was naturally inhabited by blackbucks and nilgais about four decades ago but since the area turned into a closed canopy forest it became unsuitable for the habitation of blackbucks,“ he added.
