The Wildlife Protection Act (1972) was amended in 2006, including the formation of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), with provisions for relocating communities residing in critical wildlife habitats or ecologically sensitive areas.
Laying thrust on Project Tiger, which completed its 50 years recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that it is the result of the pioneering conservation initiative that 70 per cent of the world's tigers are found in India.
PM Modi also released a commemorative coin on the completion of 50 years of Project Tiger.
Project Tiger will complete 50 years next month after successfully protecting the big cat, which was facing the danger of extinction.
These results have shown a healthy annual growth rate of tigers at 6%, which offsets natural losses and keeps tigers at the habitats carrying capacity level, in the Indian context.
What causes a need to take the latest figures in context is that there is not much to explain the claim of success ~ there has been no marked increase in the “protected” areas, few signs of an expanding prey base, or evidence of the much-desired tiger corridors having become a tangible reality etc.
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