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Project Tiger: Conservation Efforts Explained

Project Tiger was launched in 1973 to conserve India's declining tiger population. It aimed to eliminate human exploitation of tiger habitats, strengthen protection efforts, expand undisturbed tiger areas, and regenerate forest habitats. Conservation occurs at three levels - monitoring tiger populations and reasons for increases/decreases, maintaining sufficient prey populations, and protecting tiger litters and treating diseased animals. The program was created in response to the tiger population dropping from 40,000 to 1,827 from 1972 due to hunting and habitat loss from deforestation and river development.

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Project Tiger: Conservation Efforts Explained

Project Tiger was launched in 1973 to conserve India's declining tiger population. It aimed to eliminate human exploitation of tiger habitats, strengthen protection efforts, expand undisturbed tiger areas, and regenerate forest habitats. Conservation occurs at three levels - monitoring tiger populations and reasons for increases/decreases, maintaining sufficient prey populations, and protecting tiger litters and treating diseased animals. The program was created in response to the tiger population dropping from 40,000 to 1,827 from 1972 due to hunting and habitat loss from deforestation and river development.

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PROJECT TIGER

By Shidhu Sir
Introduction
Tiger (Panthera Tigris) has been the inte­gral part to the life and
legend of mankind. The tiger has been feared and revered,
hunt­ed and worshiped; it has found its way into folklore and
lullabies, books of worship, pop­ular fiction and innumerable
stories of hero­ism, bravery and adventure.

At present the tiger is an endangered species and has found its


way in the Red Data Book. The tiger population has been
reduced from 40,000 to 1,827 by 1972, main­ly due to hunting,
habitat loss due to deforestation and taming the rivers for
human needs.

Considering the fast decline of the tiger population, a special


task force was set up in 1970 by the Indian Board for Wildlife
to prepare an action plan to conserve the population of tiger in
the country. As a result of that, Project Tiger was launched by
the Indira Gandhi government in April 1973 from the Jim
Corbett National Park in Uttarakhand.
Main Aims and Objectives of the Project:
• Elimination of all forms of human exploitation and
disturbance from the core and rationalization of such
activities in the buffer.
• Strengthening efforts towards protection of tiger,
checking poaching, convicting wildlife criminals and
breaking the international trade network in wildlife body
parts and derivatives.
• Expanding the undisturbed areas for tiger by reducing
human pressure.
• Repair the relationship with local people who share the
tigers habitat by fielding strategies for coexistence.
• Regenerate the forest habitats in the fringes of the tigers
protective enclaves by investing in forest, water and
grassland economies of the people.
• Researching facts about habitat and wild animals and
carefully monitoring chan­ges in flora and fauna.
Levels of Conservation:

Conservation of tiger is done at the following levels:

Level I:

The population of the tigers in any reserve is to be determined from


time to time. The reasons for either their increase or decrease are to
be noted. In case of decrease, the reasons are to be located and
appropriate measures are to be undertaken.

If they encounter severe diseases then it should be diagnosed and


immediate treatments are to be made. If the decrease in number is
due to poaching then constant vigilance is to be maintained to keep
poachers away.

Level II:

The food of tiger comprises of deer, sambar, wild boar etc. as it is a


carni­vore. Care should be taken to keep the food animals in
sufficient numbers, so that the tiger need not come out of the forest
for food and get killed by the hunters.
Level III:

It is essential to have know­ledge about the breeding season of


the tigers and the number of litters born. The litters should be
protected from all sorts of danger including diseases. The
diseased litters or tigers should be imprisoned and treated and
later released into their natural habitat.

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