Three new havens for tigers
National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has accorded In-principle
approval has been accorded for creation of 3 TIGER reserves at;
1) Ratapani in Madhya Pradesh,
2) Sunabeda in Odisha, and
3) Guru Ghasidas
in Chhattisgarh
The
NTCA also accorded final approval to a proposal to declare Kudremukh National
Park in Karnataka and Rajaji National Park in Uttarakhand as tiger
reserves.
State
governments have been asked to send conservation proposals for the following
areas: Suhelwa in Uttar Pradesh, Mhadei in Goa, Srivilliputtur
Grizzled Squirrel Wildlife Sanctuary/ Meghamalai Wildlife Sanctuary/
Varushanadu Valley in Tamil Nadu, Dibang in Arunachal Pradesh and Cauvery-MM
Hills in Karnataka.
Punishments
for violation of tiger reserve rules and hunting or altering the boundaries of
tiger reserves have been enhanced. As per the Ministry’s country-level
assessment, India hosted an estimated 2226 tigers in 2014.
Over
one lakh hectares of forest land has been diverted for mining projects. Chhattisgarh
witnessed the largest such diversion.
India is home to 70 percent
of tigers in the world.
In 2006, there were 1,411
tigers which increased to 1,706 in 2011 and 2,226 in 2014
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