INTERNATIONAL
TIGER DAY
Introduction
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International
Tiger Day is celebrated on July 29 every year to raise awarness about the
dwindling population of Tiger.
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Begin from –
2010, Agreement of Saint Petersbury Tiger summit in Russia.
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Saint Petersburg
summit – Leaders of 13 tiger range countries resolved to do more for the Tiger
and emberked on efforts to double its number in the wild with a popular slogan
'T × 2'
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Declared to
double the Tiger population of the year 2022.
Theme –
International Tiger Day 2023 will be celebrated without any
specific theme with the common goal to raise awareness about tiger
extinction and the need to save them
Tiger Protection Status
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Indian wildlife
Protection act, 1972 : Schedule I
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IUCN Red list :
Endangered
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CITES : Appendex
I
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Indian Tiger
Population is rising from 1411 in 2006 to 3080 in 2022.
Tiger reserve in India
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Project Tiger
Run by NTCA is incharge of 54 tiger reserve in India
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Recently added
tiger reserve in india
1.
Guru ghasidas
tiger reserve, chhatisgarh
2. Ramgarh Vishdhari Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan
3. Srivilliputhur Megamalai tiger Reserve, Tamil Nadu
4. Kamlang Tiger Reserve, Arunachal Pradesh
Project Tiger
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Launched on – 1 April, 1973 by Government of India
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Motto – India leads Tiger Conservation
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Parent
Department – National Tiger
Conservation Authority.
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First
launched in – Jim Corbat National
Park, Uttarakhand
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Father of
Project Tiger in India – Kailash
Sankhala
Tiger Task Force
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Set up - In 2005 following the open exposure by the media on
the sudden disappearance of the tigers from the Sariska Wildlife Reserve.
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Set up – By The Prime Minister of India
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Objective - To strengthen the conservation of Tigers in the
country.
Initiatives of the Tiger Task Force are
as follows :
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To look into the
various problems of tiger conservation
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Suggest methods
for tiger conservation.
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Limit the
poaching of tigers and all the illegal.
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To improve the
method of counting and forecasting the tigers.
National Tiger Conservation Authority
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Established
in – December 2005
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Objective – To organise management of Project Tiger
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Parent
Department – Ministry of Environment
Forest & Climate change.
Initiative for Protection of Tiger
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Project Tiger
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National Tiger
Conservation Authority –
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'T × 2' Program
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M-STrIPES,
Monitoring System for Tigers - Intensive Protection and Ecological Status
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Wildlife
Protection Society of India
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Valmiki Tiger
Conservation Project
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Tiger Corridor
Protection program
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The Corbett
Foundation
Tiger Census in India
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Tiger Census
- is done every four years
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Tiger census
done by- The National Tiger
Conservation Authority (NTCA) partnership with state forest departments,
conservation NGOs, and the Wildlife Institute of India (WII).
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Census Method
- The census uses a double sampling
method based on ground-based surveys and images from camera-traps.
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Population - Grown by 200 from 2018 to 2022.
o Current tiger population in India is 3,167, up from
2,967 in 2018.
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Growth Rate - Slowed to 6.7% in the four years from 2018 to 2022,
from around 33% during 2014-2018.