27-09-2012, 03:28 PM
INDIAN CASE STUDY OF PROJECT TIGER AND BIOSPHERE RESERVE
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GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
Project Tiger was meant to identify the limiting factors and to mitigate them by suitable management.
The damages done to the habitat were to be rectified so as to facilitate the recovery of the ecosystem to the maximum possible extent.
TIGER CONSERVATION
In June 2007, a detailed survey by the Wildlife Institute of India (WII), which used accurate camera traps for counting tigers rather than the more traditional method of counting footprints (pugmarks), reported that previous estimates of tiger numbers in India may be hugely optimistic.
TIGER ORGANISATION
The Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 has been amended to provide for constituting of the National Tiger Conservation Authority responsible for implementation of the Project Tiger Plan to protect endangered tigers
The National Tiger Conservation Authority is set up under the Chairmanship of the Minister for Environment & Forests
The Wild Life (Protection) Amendment Act, 2006 (No. 39 of 2006) has come into force on 4 September 2006. The Act provides for creating the National Tiger Conservation
Authority and the Tiger and Other Endangered Species Crime Control Bureau (Wildlife Crime Control Bureau )
Mudumalai Tiger Reserve
There are 48 tigers in the Nilgiri Reserve across which tigers are free to roam. In April, 2007, the Tamil Nadu state government declared Mudumalai as a Tiger Reserve, under section 38V of the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972, in an effort to conserve the country's dwindling Tiger populations.