TIGER POPULATION INCREASED BY 30% ( from 1706 to 2226 ) .
Total number of Tiger Reserve in India =47
Project Tiger-
started in 1973 under PM INDIRA GANDHI with nine tiger reserves covering an area of 16,339 sq.km.
In the beginning of the 1970s, once tiger hunting had officially been banned in India, a tiger count was done across the entire country. This lead to the astonishing discovery that only 1800 specimens of this magnificent animal were left. This jolted the concerned authorities and some serious thought went into devising plans to save the tiger.
The main objective of the scheme is to ensure a viable population of tiger in India for scientific, economic, aesthetic, cultural and ecological values and to preserve areas of biological importance as natural heritage for the benefit, education and enjoyment of the people. Main objectives under the scheme include Wildlife management and protection measures.
Government initiatives on Tiger Conservation & Forest Management yield impressive results – Shri Prakash Javadekar
Tiger Population in India increases to 2226; increase by 30.5% since the last estimate
Minister releases Status of Tigers in India Report 2014
Shri Prakash Javadekar, Minister of Environment, Forests& Climate Change has said that Government initiatives to streamline Tiger Conservation along with effective Forest Management and Community Participation had led to increase in the number of tigers.All around involvement of all stakeholders had helped enhance the number of tigers from 1706 in 2010 to 2226 in the latest estimates. This increase in Tiger Population was a testimony of the success of various measures adopted by the Government. These measures related to Special Tiger Protection Force, Special Programme for Orphan Tiger cubs, efforts to control poaching and initiatives to minimize Human-Animal conflict and encroachment. India was willing to donate Tiger cubs to international community and play a key role in the global Tiger Conservation efforts.The Minister stated this while inaugurating the two day meeting of the Chief Wildlife Wardens of Tiger States and Field Directors of Tiger Reserves, here today.
Shri Javadekar further stated that the successful Tiger Conservation practices in the country could be adopted and practiced by the international community as a step towards sustainable forest management.Shri Javadekar lauded the efforts of the Tiger ReservesManagement and Project Tiger Team for the achievement.
The Third Round of country-level Tiger Assessment employing refined technology of double sampling using camera traps had recorded an increase in tiger population. The midvalue of the snapshot assessment using the same methodology in 2006 was 1411. In 2010 the Tiger population was 1706 and in 2014 it stood at 2226 with an increase 30.5 % since the last estimate. A total of 3,78,118 sq.kms of Forest Area in 18 Tiger States was surveyed, with total of 1540 unique Tiger Photo captures. As per the survey, Tiger population has increased in Karnataka, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala. The third round of independent Management Effectiveness Evaluation of Tiger Reserves has shown an overall improvement in the score of 43 Tiger Reserves from 65% in 2010-11 to 69 in 2014.
The Economic Valuation of 6 Tiger Reserves carried out for the first time provided qualitative and quantitative estimates of benefits accruing from tiger reserves. These included ecological, economic, social and cultural services. The assessment of Forest Cover Change in Tiger Landscape of Shivalik-Gangetic Plain has indicated an improvement of forest cover in core areas of Tiger Reserves.
The Minister released various Reports on the status of Tiger population in India namely Report on All India Tiger Estimation 2014, Report on Management Effectiveness Evaluation of Tiger Reserves -2014, Compendium on Status of Tiger Reserves, Report on Economic Valuation of Tiger Reserves, Report on Assessment of Changes Forest Cover in Tiger Reserves (Shivalik- Gangetic Plain Landscape), and Report on Corridors: Connecting Tiger Population for Long term Conservation. Shri Javadekar also distributed NTCA awards for Excellence in various categories.
Tiger Facts :-
1. India has 70% of world's Tiger population spread in 18 indian states (3.78 lakh sq.km area over 47 tiger reserves in india) and number is estimated to be 2226 in year 2014 up from 1706 in year 2010 and 1411 in year 2006.
2. Karnataka tops the tiger population list with 406 tigers , Uttarakhand on second position with 340 tigers , Madhya pradesh on 3rd with 308 tigers , Tamilnadu on 4th with 229 tigers ( from 76 tigers in 2006 , tiger population trippled in Tamilnadu to 229 in 2014) , North East hills on 4th position with 207 tigers.
3. Although Tamilnadu also tops the tiger deaths list with 15 number of tiger deaths in 2014 with 14 number of tiger deaths in Madhya pradesh and Uttarakhand on third ; total number of tiger deaths in 2014 was 66 up from 63 in 2013.
3.The Mudumalai-Bandipur-Nagarhole-Wayanad complex spreading in 11,000 sq km in states of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala holds the world’s single largest tiger population currently estimated over 570.
The largest increase is recorded in the Western Ghats Landscape complex — Kerala, Karnataka, Goa and Tamil Nadu — with 776 tigers (up from 402 in 2006)
4. Periyar Tiger reserve (Kerala ) got NTCA award 2014 for encouraging local people participation in managing the reserve).
5. Uttarakhand with only one tiger reserve i.e. Corbett got 2nd position ..appreciable effort .
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