Tuesday, October 16, 2012

TIGER PROJECT


TIGER PROJECT



Project tiger was launched in 1973 with a mandate to conserve tigers in a holistic manner. These are fulfilled by facilitating focused, concerted management of ecotypical reserves in various states, constituted on a core buffer strategy through funding the technical support including site-specific inputs to elicit local community support for conservation. Initially, the project was launched in nine tieger, reserves, covering an area of 16,339 sq. km. which has now increased to 28 tiger reserves, encompassing 37,761 sq. km. of tiger habitat distributed in 17 states. Four new tiger reserves which were added recently: (i) Pakhi- Barmeri (Arunachal/Assam); (ii) Bori-satpura (Madhya Pradesh); (iii) Bhadra (Karnataka) (iv) Pench (Maharashtra).

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