{"id":51026,"date":"2019-08-08T19:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T13:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/?p=51026"},"modified":"2019-08-08T15:20:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T09:50:20","slug":"7-pm-the-big-picture-on-tigers-8th-august-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/7-pm-the-big-picture-on-tigers-8th-august-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"7 PM | The big picture on tigers | 8th August, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Context: <\/strong>Growing\ntiger population<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>More\nin News:<\/strong>\nOn 29th July 2019, International Tiger\nDay,&nbsp;<strong>PM Narendra Modi has declared the result of\nTiger Census 2018<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Global\nTiger Day:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Global Tiger Day was created in 2010 at the St. Petersburg\nTiger Summit in Russia when all 13 tiger\nrange countries came together for the first time and decided that\nbusiness-as-usual approaches were not working. They committed to the\nmost ambitious conservation goal set for a single species &#8211; to double the\nnumber of wild tigers by 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tiger\nPopulation facts from the latest census report:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Total&nbsp;<strong>population of&nbsp;Royal Bengal Tiger&nbsp;in India is 2967<\/strong>&nbsp;as\nper the Tiger Census 2018, which is more than double of 2006 Tiger Census.<\/li><li>As\nper Tiger Census 2018,&nbsp;Madhya Pradesh&nbsp;became the new&nbsp;Tiger\nCapital&nbsp;or&nbsp;Tiger State of India&nbsp;with 526 Royal Bengal Tigers. The\ntop 3 Tiger States of India are:<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<table class=\"wp-block-table\"><tbody><tr><td>State <\/td><td>Tiger Population in the State <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Madhya Pradesh <\/td><td>526 <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Karnataka <\/td><td>524 <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Uttrakhand <\/td><td>442 <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>There are 4 States (M.P., Karnataka,\nUttrakhand &amp; Maharashtra) with more than 300 Tigers<\/li><li>There are 4 States (Tamil Nadu, Assam,\nKerala, Uttar Pradesh) with more than 150 Tigers.<\/li><li>Total 8 States with more than 100%\nIncrease in Tiger Population as compared to 2006.<\/li><li>Buxa, Dampa and Palamau Tiger Reserves\ndo not have a single Tigers now.<\/li><li>No Tigers were found in Mizoram state.<\/li><li><strong>Pench\nNational Park<\/strong>&nbsp;in Madhya Pradesh and&nbsp;<strong>Periyar National Park<\/strong>&nbsp;in Kerala are the\ntop-rated Tiger Reserves in India.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tiger\ncensus in India:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every 4 year the\nNational Tiger Conservation Authority conducts a tiger census across India to\nfigure out the Royal Bengal Tiger population in India. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>National Tiger Conservation Authority:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The National Tiger\nConservation Authority is a statutory body under the Ministry of Environment,\nForests and Climate Change<\/li><li>It was constituted\nunder enabling provisions of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, as amended in\n2006, for strengthening tiger conservation,<\/li><li>The National Tiger\nConservation Authority has been fulfilling its mandate within the ambit of the\nWildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 for strengthening tiger conservation in the\ncountry by retaining an oversight through advisories\/normative guidelines,\nbased on appraisal of tiger status, ongoing conservation initiatives and\nrecommendations of specially constituted Committees. <\/li><li>\u2018Project Tiger\u2019 is a\nCentrally Sponsored Scheme of the \u2018Ministry of Environment, Forests and\nClimate Change\u2019, providing funding support to tiger range States, for in-situ\nconservation of tigers in designated tiger reserves, and has put the endangered\ntiger on an assured path of recovery by saving it from extinction, as revealed\nby the recent findings of the All India tiger estimation using the refined\nmethodology.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tiger Reserves in India:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>There are\u00a0<strong>50 Tiger Reserves in India<\/strong>. <\/li><li>The<strong>\u00a0oldest tiger reserve is<\/strong>\u00a0Corbett Tiger Reserve\u00a0which was declared in the year 1973 under \u2018Project Tiger\u2018<\/li><li><strong>Kamlang Tiger Reserve<\/strong>\u00a0is the\u00a0<strong>newest Tiger Reserve of India<\/strong>\u00a0declared in the year 2018.<\/li><li>Madhya Pradesh is the state with the maximum number of Tiger Reserves in India. There are\u00a06 tiger reserves in Madhya Pradesh.<ul><li>Pench Tiger Reserve<\/li><li>Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve<\/li><li>Kanha Tiger Reserve<\/li><li>Satpura Tiger Reserve<\/li><li>Sanjay Dubri Tiger Reserve<\/li><li>Panna Tiger Reserve<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"371\" height=\"393\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/map.jpg?resize=371%2C393&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51027\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Challenges:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>There has been a 20% decline in areas\noccupied by tigers in 2014 to today, although tigers have moved into some new\nareas (some 8% of their Indian range is new).<\/li><li>Relaxations in norms to allow for a\nwidening of highway and railway networks are the new threats, adding to the old\nones of retaliatory poisoning and poaching.<\/li><li>A report rated Pench Tiger Reserve in\nMadhya Pradesh as the best in terms of good management practices. However, the\nPench tiger faces a new threat. The National Highway 7 (NH7), which connects\nPench and Kanha tiger reserves, has just been widened.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Apart from highways, railway and\nirrigation projects are coming up in tiger reserves. For example, the Ken-Betwa\nriver interlinking project will submerge 100 sq. km of Panna Tiger Reserve.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What can be done?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Highways and railways should not be\nexpanded to encroach into tiger areas.<\/li><li>Irrigation projects should also be\navoided in the areas.<\/li><li>Cost-benefit analyses need to take into\naccount the needs of wild animals.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Conclusion:\n<\/strong>At\nthe moment, highways are not even able to do away with barriers, and it is\nassumed that tigers can swim through dam-submerged areas. So, to live, tigers\nare being made to swim across dams, cross highways, dash across railway lines,\nnot eat livestock, and avoid people. The numbers are definitely a reason to\ncheer for India, but still government need to make clear policies that do not\nhamper the growth of the nation and at the same time preserve the habitat of\nthe wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/the-big-picture-on-tigers\/article28872115.ece\">https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/the-big-picture-on-tigers\/article28872115.ece<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context: Growing tiger population More in News: On 29th July 2019, International Tiger Day,&nbsp;PM Narendra Modi has declared the result of Tiger Census 2018. Global Tiger Day: Global Tiger Day was created in 2010 at the St. Petersburg Tiger Summit in Russia when all 13 tiger range countries came together for the first time and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/7-pm-the-big-picture-on-tigers-8th-august-2019\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">7 PM | The big picture on tigers | 8th August, 2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":49370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7-pm","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/7-PM.png?fit=1000%2C500&ssl=1","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704765102},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51026","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}