Hyderabad: Telangana’s Amrabad Tiger Reserve, which is in the eye of a brewing storm over uranium mining, provides direct and indirect benefits worth at least around Rs 40,000 crore a year to the people and the environment. The neighbouring Nagarjunasagar-Srisailam Tiger Reserve (NSTR), on the right bank of the Krishna River in Andhra Pradesh, provides tangible and intangible benefits totalling Rs 66,331.14 crore a year.

 According to a study, ‘Economic Evaluation of Tiger Reserves in India: A Value+ Approach’, by Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal, in collaboration with National Tiger Conservation Authority, NSTR’s annual return is even more phenomenal at Rs 7,448.6 for every Rupee spent on the reserve. For Amrabad, on the left bank of the river, the return on investment in terms of ecosystem services delivered by the tiger reserve, per rupee, works out to around Rs 4,900 a year. Read more https://telanganatoday.com/every-penny-spent-on-tiger-reserves-worth-it-says-study?fbclid=IwAR0xUw7_Cgq0q6UW70xJaEwf9C0iwIpuCiJyfA8KJ5gdIcsiVZ3kgBaUoCc