{"id":257474,"date":"2023-08-27T00:27:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T18:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=257474"},"modified":"2023-08-27T00:27:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T18:57:48","slug":"centre-approves-rajasthans-fifth-tiger-reserve-in-dholpur-karauli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/centre-approves-rajasthans-fifth-tiger-reserve-in-dholpur-karauli\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre approves Rajasthan\u2019s fifth tiger reserve in Dholpur-Karauli"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the articl<\/span>e<b> \u201cCentre approves Rajasthan\u2019s fifth tiger reserve in Dholpur-Karauli\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0published in<\/span><b> Hindustan Times on 22nd August 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has approved the <\/span><b>Dholpur-Karauli Tiger Reserve <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in Rajasthan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is India\u2019s 54th tiger reserve and Rajasthan&#8217;s fifth tiger reserve after Ranthambore, Sariska, Mukundra Hills and Ramgarh Vishdhari.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>How are Tiger Reserves notified?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tiger Reserves are notified by State Governments as per provisions of Section 38V of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 on advice of the National Tiger Conservation Authority.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Can tiger reserves be altered and denotified?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These processes are governed by Section 38W of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 whose provisions are as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Section 38 W(1) says that \u201cNo alteration in the boundaries of a tiger reserve shall be made except on a recommendation of the Tiger Conservation Authority and the approval of the National Board for Wild Life\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Section 38 W (2) says \u201cNo State Government shall de-notify a tiger reserve, except in public interest with the approval of the Tiger Conservation Authority and the National Board for Wild Life\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the status of tiger population in India?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The number of tigers in India has increased from 2,967 in 2018 to 3,682 in 2022, an annual rise of 6%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Madhya Pradesh has the maximum number of tigers in the country (785), followed by Karnataka (563), Uttarakhand (560), and Maharashtra (444).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The number of tigers in Rajasthan has increased from 32 in 2006 to 88 in 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cCentre approves Rajasthan\u2019s fifth tiger reserve in Dholpur-Karauli\u201d \u00a0published in Hindustan Times on 22nd August 2023. What is the News? The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has approved the Dholpur-Karauli Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan. This is India\u2019s 54th tiger reserve and Rajasthan&#8217;s fifth tiger reserve after Ranthambore,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/centre-approves-rajasthans-fifth-tiger-reserve-in-dholpur-karauli\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Centre approves Rajasthan\u2019s fifth tiger reserve in Dholpur-Karauli<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182,9],"tags":[10595],"class_list":["post-257474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-public","tag-hindustan-times","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}