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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. As of December 2024, there are 57 protected areas that have been designated as tiger reserves under the project. As of 2023 ...
In 1971, Sankhala conducted a survey of the tiger population in India. [5] His research later lead him to become the first director of Project Tiger in 1973. [6] Sankhala created the Tiger Trust in 1989. [7] Sankhala's son, Pradeep Sankhala, took over the charge of the Tiger Trust after his father's death.
When Simlipal Tiger Reserve was established in 1972, Choudhury was made its founder field director and the head of Project Tiger [10] with his headquarters in Baripada. [11] 1974 was a landmark year in Choudhury's life when the Kharia tribals brought a female tiger cub found near the Khairi river. [12]
Jim Corbett National Park IUCN category II (national park) Bengal tiger in Corbett National Park Location in Uttarakhand Show map of Uttarakhand Jim Corbett National Park (India) Show map of India Location Nainital, Uttarakhand, India Nearest city Ramnagar, Kotdwar Coordinates 29°32′55″N 78°56′7″E / 29.54861°N 78.93528°E / 29.54861; 78.93528 Area 1,318 km 2 Max ...
Entrance to the tiger reserve Periyar Lake. The first official action towards the conservation of wildlife and biodiversity in Kerala was taken in 1934 by the Maharaja of Travancore, Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma, by declaring the forests around Periyar lake as a private reserve to stop the encroachment of tea plantations.
In 1981, Panwar was transferred to Delhi, as the head of Project Tiger, a project conceptualised in 1973, for the protection of tiger population in India. He worked for 4 years on the project, till 1985, during which time, the project brought seven additional reserves under its umbrella. The population of tigers in India rose from 1900 to 3000. [4]
Tiger poaching in India has seriously impacted the probability of survival of tigers in India. [1] About 3,000 wild tigers now survive compared with 100,000 at the turn of the 20th century. This abrupt decimation in population count was largely due to the slaughter of tigers by colonial and Indian elite, during the British Raj period, and ...
Books by Valmik Thapar. With Tigers in the Wild, Vikas Publishing, Delhi; Tiger: Portrait of a Predator, Collins UK; Tigers: The Secret Life, Hamish Hamilton, Penguin, UK; The Tiger's Destiny, Kyle Ceathie, UK; The Land of the Tiger: A Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent, BBC Publishing, UK; The Secret Life of Tigers, Oxford University ...