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Tigers in India constitute more than 70% of the global population of tigers. [1] [2] Tigers have been officially adopted as the National Animal of India [3] on recommendation of the National Board for Wildlife [4] since April 1973. [5] In popular local languages, tigers are called baagh, puli or sher. [6]
The Bengal tiger and the Indian elephant are endangered species which are protected by Project Tiger and Project Elephant programmes run by Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India. [1] [2] [3] Indian Leopards are vulnerable and protected species. [4] The tiger numbers are of animals aged above 1.5 years. [5] [6]
Between 1994 and 2009, the Wildlife Protection Society of India has documented 893 cases of tigers killed in India, which is just a fraction of the actual poaching and trade in tiger parts during those years. [98] In 2004, all the tigers in India's Sariska Tiger Reserve were killed by poachers. [99]
Tiger reserves were set up as a part of Project Tiger initiated in 1973 and are administered by the National Tiger Conservation Authority of Government of India. Tiger reserves consist of a core area which includes part(s) of protected areas such as a national park or a wildlife sanctuary and a buffer zone which is a mix of forested and non ...
Project Tiger is a wildlife conservation movement initiated in India to protect the endangered tiger.The project was initiated in 1973 by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change of the Government of India.
In China, tigers became the target of large-scale 'anti-pest' campaigns in the early 1950s, where suitable habitats were fragmented following deforestation and resettlement of people to rural areas, who hunted tigers and prey species. Though tiger hunting was prohibited in 1977, the population continued to decline and is considered extinct in ...
When researchers trekked through a tiger reserve in India, it wasn’t the big, striped cats that piqued their interest. ... Amphibian species currently make up 41% of the 42,000 animals on the ...
Pages in category "Tigers in India" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. G.