Wildlife Corridors: a conservation tool

The concept of corridors for conservation is increasing despite a lack of consensus on their efficacy. Though there are several studies demonstrating functionality of corridors in providing dispersal ability to plants and animals between habitat fragments, among these studies itself many are inflicted with design flaws and whose result can’t be generalized to other cases.There is a need to analyze use of corridor as an effective conservation tool and whether it’s the only judicial way of using the resources available for conservation. In present paper I have done a review of existing literature on use of corridors. The paper shows that where on one hand the importance of corridor in landscape level conservation approach can’t be denied, but in order to prove or even improve its merit many studies still need to be done and in a better designed way. The corridor, even if they are acting as a conservation tool, its value can be increased by incorporating other conservation measures. We have also presented a case study on use of these corridors by tiger in India.