The vision of the Satkosia Tiger Reserve is therefore, to conserve the complete ecosystem of Satkosia landscape in perpetuity using the tiger as a flagship species by maintaining a healthy viable breeding population inside an large inviolate core area in conjunction with a multiple-use buffer and adjoining area. The Tiger task force report ‘Joining the Dots’ submitted to the Prime Minister in 2005, stresses that “a strategy of inclusive protection should be the essence of future conservation in India because of the internecine conflicts between people and park managers, regarding resource use in the park fringes”. Thus, the need of the hour is to work out a strategy which fully takes into account the local people, their aspirations and felt needs while going about the business of conserving the tiger and its habitat.
To make the core area a safe zone for a healthy breeding population of the tiger.
To eliminate biotic interference inside the area.
To actively manage selected pockets and enhance the forage availability for prey base, increase their population and thereby facilitating increase in tiger population.
To maintain selected pockets as benchmark ecosystems to carry out research, monitor ecological changes, quantify ecosystem services and exhaustively document biodiversity richness.
With the vision and goals stated above, long term objectives are set forth as under :-
Protection and conservation of flora and fauna with special reference to the Tiger.
Enhancement of capacity building of staff and protection infrastructure development.
Habitat improvement including water development that aims at increasing carrying capacity of prey base.
Relocation of villages from the inviolate area.
Safeguarding tiger habitat from ecologically unsustainable development.