Community, individual rights accorded to tribal settlements in Anamalai Tiger Reserve.

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Community, individual rights accorded to tribal settlements in Anamalai Tiger Reserve.

Why in the news?

• Coimbatore District Collector Kranthi Kumar Pati on Friday accorded community forest rights under theForest Rights Act, 2006, tothree tribal settlements in the Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR).

About Anamalai Tiger Reserve:

• It is a protected area located at an altitude of 1400 m in theAnamalai Hills of Pollachi and Coimbatore District of Tamil Nadu.
• It lies south of the Palakkad gap in the Southern Western Ghats. 
• It is surrounded by the Parambikulum Tiger Reserve on the east, Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary, and Eravikulum National Park on the southwestern side.
• The reserve is also surrounded by the Nenmara, Vazhachal, Malayattur, and Marayur reserved forests of Kerala.
• It was declared atiger reserve in the year 2007.