“Massive poaching in the past two years has wiped out the entire tiger population at one of the tiger reserves in India," says one of the investigation reports.
Study the information in C .7 and C.8 and notice how the number of tigers are falling. Using the information, write a paragraph in about 150 words on Project Tiger.
Project tiger is a wildlife conservation project initiated in India in 1972 to protect the Bengal Tigers. It was launched on April 1, 1973 and has become one of the most successful wild life conservation ventures. Project tiger aims at Tiger conservation in specially constituted Tiger reserves representative of various bio geographical regions through out India. It strives to maintain a viable conservation reliant on tiger population in their natural environment. The main achievements of this project are excellent recovery of the habitat and consequent increase in the tiger population in the reserve areas, from a mere 268 in 7 reserves in 1972 to above one thousand in 28 reserves in 2006.Tigers being at the apex of the food chain can be considered as the indicator of the integrity of the eco system.