With the presence of nearly 30 per cent of India’s tigers outside tiger reserves, India had embarked upon assessing management interventions through the globally developed Conservation Assured | Tiger Standards (CA|TS) framework which will now be extended to all 50 tiger reserves across the country.
Terming this achievement a great moment, Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar, in a tweet message, said that this is a shining example of Atma nirbhar Bharat which in the Prime Minister’s own words, was attained through sankalp se siddhi.
Can the tiger ever get out of the myths that are more deep-rooted than its own existence? That they kill humans has only added to their image of being ferocious, cruel and ‘evil’ instead of eliciting respect for their power and beauty.
