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2. ABOUT PROJECT TIGER

Project Tiger is a wildlife conservation movement
initiated in India in 1973 to protect the Bengal
Tigers.
The project aims at tiger conservation in specially
constituted tiger reserves representative of various
regions throughout India.
In 2008, there were more than 40 Tiger Reserves of
India covering an area over 37,761 km².
Project Tiger helped to increase the population of
these tigers from 1,200 in the 1970s to 3,500 in
1990s

3. However, a 2008 census held by
Government of India revealed that the
tiger population had dropped to 1,411.
Since then the government has pledged
US$153 million to further fund the
project, set-up a Tiger Protection Force
to combat poachers, and fund the
relocation of up to 200,000 villagers to
minimize human-tiger interaction.

4. Project Tiger was formed in 1972 and launched
on the 1st April 1973 at Corbett National Park.
It's aims were:
To ensure maintenance of a viable population
of tigers in India for scientific, economic,
aesthetic, cultural and ecological values.
To preserve, for all times, areas of such
biological importance as a national heritage for
the benefit, education and enjoyment of the
people.
Early development:
With the co-operation of the Indian
Government, Project Tiger initially established
9 reserves, across different ecosystems. These
were devoted specifically to saving the tiger
and eliminating those.

6. Factors which were contributing to the
decline of the tiger:
habitat destruction.
forestry disturbance.
loss of prey.
poaching.
competition with local villagers and
domestic animals

10. •Tigers are at the top of the ecosystem
chain as the top predators.

•The entire ecosystem health is predicated
on the health of the tiger population

•If tigers die out, herbivores will
overpopulate and denude vegetation
leading to cascading detrimental
environmental effects.

11. RESERVE OPERATIONS:

Within the reserves, certain areas were
designated as breeding grounds (core
areas) and these were out of bounds to the
public. It was hoped that as tiger
populations increased any surplus animals
would migrate to neighboring forests. To
encourage this to happen, routes were
established away from public view which
allowed easy access to other forests. Wide
buffer zones protected the breeding areas
and public access to these was limited.

13. DID YOU KNOW?
A villager can earn as much in one night by
poisoning and skinning a tiger as
he could by farming for 5 years

14. Most tigers have more than 100
stripes, and no two tigers have
identical stripes
A group of tigers is called a
streak.
The roar of a tiger can be heard
more than a mile away

17. Thank You….