Cause an Uproar. Bengal (Indian) tiger. Project Tiger: Preventing Extinction of the Tiger | Natural Environment Blog. Project Tiger is the name given to an initiative dedicated to helping save the tiger from extinction. More specifically, Project Tiger is based in India and is therefore generally aimed towards maintaining a healthy population of Bengal tigers in India. Since its inception in 1973, Project Tiger has been credited with a major increase in Bengal tiger numbers.
Project Tiger claimed to have tripled the Bengal tiger population from its 1973 count of around 1,200, to 3,642 tigers in 2001/2002. Unfortunately, a more recent report indicates that the Bengal tiger population has been reduced back to 1,411 due to poaching. Project Tiger carries out their work using the following approach: Elimination of all forms of human exploitation and disturbance from the core and rationalisation of such activities in the buffer.Limitation of the habitat management to repair damage done by man.Researching facts about habitat and wild animals and carefully monitoring changes in flora and fauna.
Related Posts: Saving the Royal Bengal Tiger. HERE is an article of mine, recently published in the Dataquest Magazine, wherein I discuss about how technology can be employed to save big cats, especially the Royal Bengal Tiger, in India..A very special article for me... ( The Last Roar? Can technological innovations like GIS, GPS, Radio Telemetry save India's national animal from certain extinction? The good news is that transformation is underway, the bad, it isn't fast enough. Fortunately, technology might just rescue what humans have forsaken...Wednesday, June 27, 2007 Tiger count tells a sorry tale' screamed the headline of a leading newspaper on a sultry May morning.
The Wildlife Institute of India (WII) based in Dehradun, burst that bubble by presenting the truth to the nation last month. The answer was fairly simple: technology had 'happened' to the tigers. There are no two ways about it.