tiger project.ppt

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ABOUT PROJECT TIGER

Project Tiger is a wildlife conservation movementinitiated in India in 1973 to protect the BengalTigers.

The project aims at tiger conservation in speciallyconstituted tiger reserves representative of various

regions throughout India. In 2008, there were more than 40 Tiger Reserves ofIndia covering an area over 37,761 km.

Project Tiger helped to increase the population ofthese tigers from 1,200 in the 1970s to 3,500 in

1990s


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However, a 2008 census held byGovernment of India revealed that thetiger population had dropped to 1,411.

Since then the government has pledgedUS$153 million to further fund theproject, set-up a Tiger Protection Force

to combat poachers, and fund therelocation of up to 200,000 villagers tominimize human-tiger interaction.


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Project Tiger was formed in 1972 and launchedon the 1st April 1973 at Corbett National Park.It's aims were:

To ensure maintenance of a viable populationof tigers in India for scientific, economic,aesthetic, cultural and ecological values.

To preserve, for all times, areas of suchbiological importance as a national heritage forthe benefit, education and enjoyment of thepeople.

Early development: With the co-operation of the Indian

Government, Project Tiger initially established9 reserves, across different ecosystems. Thesewere devoted specifically to saving the tigerand eliminating those.


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Factors which were contributing to thedecline of the tiger:

habitat destruction. forestry disturbance.

loss of prey.

poaching. competition with local villagers and

domestic animals


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Tigers are at the top of the ecosystem

chain as the top predators.

The entire ecosystem health is predicatedon the health of the tiger population

If tigers die out, herbivores will

overpopulate and denude vegetationleading to cascading detrimental

environmental effects.


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RESERVE OPERATIONS:

Within the reserves, certain areas weredesignated as breeding grounds (coreareas) and these were out of bounds to thepublic. It was hoped that as tigerpopulations increased any surplus animalswould migrate to neighboring forests. Toencourage this to happen, routes wereestablished away from public view whichallowed easy access to other forests. Widebuffer zones protected the breeding areasand public access to these was limited.


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DID YOU KNOW?

A villager can earn as much in one night bypoisoning and skinning a tiger as

he could by farming for 5 years


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Most tigers have more than 100stripes, and no two tigers haveidentical stripes

A group of tigers is called astreak.

The roar of a tiger can be heardmore than a mile away


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Thank You.

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