According to the 2023 All-India Tiger Estimate Report, India has the world’s largt tiger population, home to more than 3.600 wild tigers, representing about 75% (53.360 sq mi) of the global wild tiger population. Shape The country’s most recent tiger census.
Indian Prime Minister Narandra Modi at that time emphasized “the responsibility of further protecting other animals along with the tiger.
But despite the healthy numbers, constant and complex efforts are required to stabilize and secure the future of the tigers.
Why are tigers still at risk?
Extension of forest harvesting, agriculture, urbanization and infrastructure projects, tiger houses have become rapidly fragmented. Consequently, constant tiger houses are divided into small patch – affecting their movement, reproduction and availability of hunting.
Wildlife conservationist Ravi Chelm told DW, “This unhealthy meditation on the population size of the large mammal is part of the various natural ecosystems and this unhealthy meditation on the population size of the large mammal, stating us with the overall determination of the functional natural ecosystem,” said wildlife protectionist Ravi Chelm.
Chellam reported that it is not only the size of houses, but their quality that disrupts the existence and recovery of the tiger. Therefore, it is important to ensure hunting-rich, well-managed and protected housing.
Chellam said, “Most ecosystems have been destroyed by unprecedented, fragmented and even many ‘development’ projects in the presence of aggressive species and with the effects of climate change felt across the country,”.
58 tiger reserves in India have spread to 18 states. LAT’s fragmentation of tiger Habats consists of severe secretions in the region where the forests overlap with the expansion of human settlements, agriculture and infrastructure corridors.
For example, the central Indian region is the home of several major tiger reserves – including Kanha, Pench, Tadoba, Satpura and Bandhavgarh. However, roads, railways, mines and agricultural expansion have ruined forests and isolated tiger population.
Tiger recovery fragmentation dent year
Major corridors – search as people connecting tiger reserves in Kanha and screw, as well as Tadoba and Inddravati – are under significant pressure. Sariska Tiger Reserve in the Western Rajasthan Corridor faced serious ecological risk from the government’s move to solve concerns about mining works near Sariska.
The purpose of this change is to reopen more than 50 marble, dolomite, limestone, and masonry stones, which were first closed due to closeness of core tiger houses by the Supreme Court order.
According to a digital promotional organization jhatkaaaaaa.org, the proposed plan to resume the boundaries of Sariska Tiger Reserve, according to a digital campaign organization jhatkaa.org, will be more than 4.800 hectares away from important tiger housing.
“This deficiency threatens important wildlife corridors which are important for tiger movement, seasonal refuge and regional installation,” the group said.
Danger for Bengal Tigers
Similarly, Sundarban Mangrove Forest is spreading to Bangladesh and parts of Eastern State West Bengal, one of the largest reserves for the tiger of Bengal. But the rising levels of the sea and coastal erosion are destroying the natural habitat of the tigers.
A prominent wildlife scientist and former Dean Yadavatrev Jhala, a prominent wildlife scientist at India’s Wildlife Institute, said that India has monitored the distribution and fusion of tigers every four years since 2006.
India has now adopted modern techniques as camera trapping, genetic analysis, and monitoring systems for tigers: to help effective protection and ecological status (M-Strips) effective patrolling, assessing ecological status and reducing human western life struggle in and around and around Tiger Reserve.
Growing Human-WlifleF struggle
“We found that the tigers remained in protected houses with adequate hunting, while extended in the fields of increased human and social disturbances,” Jhal told DW.
Tiger houses in Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and Eastern Maharashtra states have been affected by the ongoing armed. Thesis conflict fields match with AES where tiger occupants are low and more likely to be local extinction, according to A Study published in Science,
“These areas where there are maximum political stability, we can expect tiger recovery,” Hey said.
Surveying the residences of Tiger, Jhala and their team found that in some areas, tigers shared space with people in high density, which search as Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand and Karnataka.
However, they were extended or absent from areas with the legacy of broad shrubbing commercial poaching, even when human density was relatively relative in the states of Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand.
“Thus, it is not simple to the density of humans, but their attitude and lifestyle that determines the leadership for the recovery of the tiger,” Jhala said, emphasized that adopting an inclusive and sustainable rural prosperity in place for tiger recovery.
A prominent wildlife filmmaker, Sabbiah Nallamuthu, who contributed significantly to conservation efforts, especially through his work documenting the life of Tigers, told DW that the Rising Tiger is hidden behind the numbers.
In a healthy tiger landscape, wildlife scientists say that the ideal sex ratio should be an adult male for every two adult women (1: 2 or 1: 3). It is based on natural tiger behavior and field needs.
“In many tiger reserves, especially the ratambore, male-than-women ratio is now close to 1: 1 with the same number of adult men and women. In some areas, the number of time is also high,” Nallamuthu said.
From his experience that documentation of tigers, Nallamthu explains that this imbalance is caused by limited spaces, fragmented corridors and tourism pressure.
“Protection is no longer about saving only one species. It’s about saving the way your life. If we ignore the sex ratio and regional needs, we can have a number of tigers, but not in balance,” Nallamuthu said.
“A forest full of struggle is not a health forest. On this International Tiger Day, we should only focus on celebrating numbers, to understand what tigers really need to do.”
Edited by: Keith Walker
