Tiger Project
Tiger Project
Tiger Project
Tiger-a species
Tiger Facts
Size and Features
Life Expectancy ,Birth, Mating
Project Tiger
World Tiger Population
Already Extinct
Causes For Tiger Demise
Big Cats In Peril
Can They Be Saved
Enactment of Project Tiger
Failure of Project Tiger
Further Action Plan
Achievement of Project Tiger
Tiger Tiger -Fading Fast!
Tiger Reserves In India
Already extinct!
The Javan tiger once roamed the Indonesian
1) Unlimited poaching
a) supplying underground black markets with its organs, pelts and bones,
which are used for fur, Chinese medicine. Dead tiger's parts are worth as
much as $200,000 on the black market. The trade continues today in
China, Taiwan, Korea, and Singapore, although tiger medicine is a hoax
and has been shown to have no curative powers.
b) hunted for recreation.
2) Human expansion
3) Deforestation (insecticides have reduced the danger of malarial mosquitoes
in India, making land habitable that was previously home to tigers)
BIG CATS IN
PERIL
JAN 2, 2008 : One tiger seized at Bandipur,Karnataka
Jaigaon,West Bengal.
Jan 21: One tiger skin seized at Munnar,Kerala.
Jan 28: Tigress found dead at Katerniaghat,Uttar Pradesh.
Jan 29: One tiger found dead at Gudalur, Tamil Nadu
Feb 8: A tiger killed in road accident South Kheri division,
UP
Feb11: One tiger found dead at Melghat,Maharashtra.
TIGER TIGER
Fading Fast!
Bitter truth!
Its official-India has just 1,411 tigers. the 2002 census figure of 3500
tigers was clearly an effort to cover up the government failure to
protect the glorious cat. This is the stark finding of the NATIONAL TIGER
CONSERVATION AUTHORITY estimation report.
Safe heavens
Corbett,Uttarakhand
Kaziranga,Assam
Pradesh
Nagarhole,Karnataka
Kanha,Bandhavgarh, Madhya Pradesh
Dark holes
Palamau,Jharkhand
Nagarjun Srisailam,Andhra
Indravati,Chattisgarh
Ranthambore, Rajasthan