'Stripey' that's what everyone calls him these days, especially after the Ads, but for me he is the cub who is not sure of seeing his mother when he opens his eyes the next morning. Yes this is the harsh reality that the tigers in India are living with because of Us humans.
Everyone time I sit down for a discussion about preservation of forest, afforestation or saving the endangered species of animals all I get is "lets not talk about something which is not in our hands"
or anything which would divert the topic to something more interesting than saving life on earth.
All we need to understand is tiger population decreasing in India. The biggest threat to tigers in India is depletion of their chief prey like deer, wild pigs and wild cattle by local people. As a result although about 300,000 square kilometers of tiger habitat still remains, much of it is empty of tigers because there is not enough food for them to survive and breed successfully.What the new study shows that the bigger chunks of empty tiger forests in north-east India need urgent improvements to even reach "reasonable management" in protected areas that we have assumed in the study. The much smaller deciduous forest reserves in south and central India of 500-1000 square kilometers size can actually hold very high densities of tigers under reasonable management. At this point in time, it is these mid sized reserves in Western Ghats, Central India, Terai and Assam that hold most of the tigers in India.
Tigers can coexist with people if the landscape is defined at scale of the country, region, state or district. However, if we insist on forcing such coexistence in clusters of breeding populations inhabiting a few hundred square kilometers in conservation priority areas, there will be severe and perennial conflict and tigers will eventually be wiped out as a result; people have votes and tigers don't. WCS's strategy is primarily to ensure such cores are protected against hunting and that people within them are compensated fairly and adequately to move out. At wider landscapes, WCS works with all partners and stake holders to address human needs while ensuring the cores are protected uncompromisingly. And unlike many others, we believe in rigorous monitoring of results by counting tigers using best possible methods.
We can save tigers by not just being interested and concerned (which they often are), but by learning more, understanding issues and supporting the right solutions. Above all, by not succumbing to the gloom and doom prophesies about the tigers that have been flooding the media for the last 10 straight years.. There is much to be done and this not the time to throw up your hands and whine.
info source : http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1108-tigers.html
Dedicated to my Best Friend
Everyone time I sit down for a discussion about preservation of forest, afforestation or saving the endangered species of animals all I get is "lets not talk about something which is not in our hands"
or anything which would divert the topic to something more interesting than saving life on earth.
All we need to understand is tiger population decreasing in India. The biggest threat to tigers in India is depletion of their chief prey like deer, wild pigs and wild cattle by local people. As a result although about 300,000 square kilometers of tiger habitat still remains, much of it is empty of tigers because there is not enough food for them to survive and breed successfully.What the new study shows that the bigger chunks of empty tiger forests in north-east India need urgent improvements to even reach "reasonable management" in protected areas that we have assumed in the study. The much smaller deciduous forest reserves in south and central India of 500-1000 square kilometers size can actually hold very high densities of tigers under reasonable management. At this point in time, it is these mid sized reserves in Western Ghats, Central India, Terai and Assam that hold most of the tigers in India.
Tigers can coexist with people if the landscape is defined at scale of the country, region, state or district. However, if we insist on forcing such coexistence in clusters of breeding populations inhabiting a few hundred square kilometers in conservation priority areas, there will be severe and perennial conflict and tigers will eventually be wiped out as a result; people have votes and tigers don't. WCS's strategy is primarily to ensure such cores are protected against hunting and that people within them are compensated fairly and adequately to move out. At wider landscapes, WCS works with all partners and stake holders to address human needs while ensuring the cores are protected uncompromisingly. And unlike many others, we believe in rigorous monitoring of results by counting tigers using best possible methods.
We can save tigers by not just being interested and concerned (which they often are), but by learning more, understanding issues and supporting the right solutions. Above all, by not succumbing to the gloom and doom prophesies about the tigers that have been flooding the media for the last 10 straight years.. There is much to be done and this not the time to throw up your hands and whine.
info source : http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1108-tigers.html
Dedicated to my Best Friend
