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Tiger</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #efefef">Tiger conservation programme overview</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Formed</th><td class="infobox-data">1 April 1973</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Motto</th><td class="infobox-data">India Leads Tiger Conservation</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parent department</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/National_Tiger_Conservation_Authority" title="National Tiger Conservation Authority">National Tiger Conservation Authority</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://ntca.gov.in/">https://ntca.gov.in/</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Project Tiger</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Wildlife_conservation" title="Wildlife conservation">wildlife conservation</a> movement initiated in <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> to protect the <a href="/wiki/Endangered_species" title="Endangered species">endangered</a> <a href="/wiki/Tiger" title="Tiger">tiger</a>. The project was initiated in 1973 by the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Environment,_Forest_and_Climate_Change" title="Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change">Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_India" title="Government of India">Government of India</a>. As of March 2024, there are 55 protected areas that have been designated as <a href="/wiki/Tiger_reserves_of_India" title="Tiger reserves of India">tiger reserves</a> under the project. As of 2023, there were 3,682 wild tigers in India, which is almost 75% of the world's wild tiger population. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History_and_objectives">History and objectives</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Project_Tiger&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History and objectives"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist 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gardens</a></li></ul> <dl><dd><b>Wildlife population</b></dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Indian_states_by_elephant_population" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Indian states by elephant population">Elephant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Indian_states_by_tiger_population" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Indian states by tiger population">Tiger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Indian_states_by_wildlife_population" title="List of Indian states by wildlife population">Wildlife</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239400231">.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:inline;font-size:88%;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .navbar-collapse{float:left;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .navbar-boxtext{word-spacing:0}.mw-parser-output .navbar ul{display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;line-height:inherit}.mw-parser-output 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template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Wildlife_of_India" title="Template talk:Wildlife of India"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Wildlife_of_India" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Wildlife of India"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Project Tiger was initiated in 1973 by the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Environment,_Forest_and_Climate_Change" title="Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change">Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_India" title="Government of India">Government of India</a>. The project was initiated to protect the <a href="/wiki/Bengal_Tiger" class="mw-redirect" title="Bengal Tiger">Bengal Tiger</a> and its habitats and to establish dedicated <a href="/wiki/Tiger_reserves_of_India" title="Tiger reserves of India">tiger reserves</a> for sustaining tiger populations.<sup id="cite_ref-PT_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PT-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As per the section 38 of the <a href="/wiki/Wild_Life_(Protection)_Act,_1972" title="Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972">Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972</a>, the state governments are responsible preparing a Tiger Conservation Plan which includes planning and management of notified areas and maintaining the requisite competent staff to ensure the protection of the tiger reserve and providing inputs for maintaining a viable population of tigers, co-predators and prey animals.<sup id="cite_ref-Reserve_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reserve-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-guidelines_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guidelines-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Tiger reserves consist of a core area which includes part(s) of protected areas such as a <a href="/wiki/National_park" title="National park">national park</a> or a <a href="/wiki/Wildlife_sanctuary" class="mw-redirect" title="Wildlife sanctuary">wildlife sanctuary</a> and a buffer zone which is a mix of forested and non-forested land. Project tiger is aimed at performing the necessary activities to ensure viability of tiger population in the core area and to promote a balance between the existence of people and animals in the buffer zones.<sup id="cite_ref-PT_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PT-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2006, <a href="/wiki/National_Tiger_Conservation_Authority" title="National Tiger Conservation Authority">National Tiger Conservation Authority</a> was formed to administer the tiger reserves which were set up as a part of Project Tiger with Project Tiger becoming a centrally sponsored scheme (CSS) to provide funding for the establishment and administration of the tiger reserves.<sup id="cite_ref-PT_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PT-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1973, nine protected areas were initially designated as tiger reserves. By the late 1980s, the initial nine reserves covering an area of 9,115 km<sup>2</sup> (3,519 sq mi) had been increased to 15 reserves covering an area of 24,700 km<sup>2</sup> (9,500 sq mi).<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 1997, 23 tiger reserves encompassed an area of 33,000 km<sup>2</sup> (13,000 sq mi).<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of March 2024, there are 55 <a href="/wiki/Protected_area" title="Protected area">protected areas</a> that have been designated as tiger reserves.<sup id="cite_ref-Reserve_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reserve-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Tiger_population">Tiger population</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Project_Tiger&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Tiger population"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:State_wise_Bengal_Tiger_Population_India,_2019.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/State_wise_Bengal_Tiger_Population_India%2C_2019.jpg/220px-State_wise_Bengal_Tiger_Population_India%2C_2019.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/State_wise_Bengal_Tiger_Population_India%2C_2019.jpg/330px-State_wise_Bengal_Tiger_Population_India%2C_2019.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/State_wise_Bengal_Tiger_Population_India%2C_2019.jpg/440px-State_wise_Bengal_Tiger_Population_India%2C_2019.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6000" data-file-height="4500" /></a><figcaption>State wise tiger population (2018)</figcaption></figure> <p>During the tiger census of 2006, a new methodology was used extrapolating site-specific densities of tigers, their co-predators and prey derived from <a href="/wiki/Camera_trap" title="Camera trap">camera trap</a> and sign surveys using <a href="/wiki/GIS" class="mw-redirect" title="GIS">GIS</a>. Based on the result of these surveys, the total tiger population was estimated at 1,411 individuals ranging from 1,165 to 1,657 adult and sub-adult tigers of more than 1.5 years of age.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 2010 National Tiger Assessment estimated the total population of wild tigers in India at 1,706. As per <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Environment,_Forest_and_Climate_Change" title="Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change">Ministry of Environment and Forests</a>, the wild tiger population in India stood at 2,226 in 2014 with an increase of 30.5% since the 2010 estimate.<sup id="cite_ref-NTA_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NTA-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2018, according to the National Tiger Conservation Authority, there were an estimated 2,603–3,346 wild tigers with an average of 2,967 in existence in India.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The wild tiger population increased to 3,682 as of 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-Report_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Report-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As India is home to majority of the global wild tiger population, the increase in population of <a href="/wiki/Tigers_in_India" title="Tigers in India">tigers in India</a> played a major role in driving up global populations as well; the number of wild tigers globally rose from 3,159 in 2010 to 3,890 in 2016 according to the <a href="/wiki/World_Wide_Fund_for_Nature" title="World Wide Fund for Nature">World Wide Fund</a> and Global Tiger Forum.<sup id="cite_ref-Global_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Global-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Management_and_administration">Management and administration</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Project_Tiger&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Management and administration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tiger_Yawning_Mudumalai_Mar21_DSC01305.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Tiger_Yawning_Mudumalai_Mar21_DSC01305.jpg/220px-Tiger_Yawning_Mudumalai_Mar21_DSC01305.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Tiger_Yawning_Mudumalai_Mar21_DSC01305.jpg/330px-Tiger_Yawning_Mudumalai_Mar21_DSC01305.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Tiger_Yawning_Mudumalai_Mar21_DSC01305.jpg/440px-Tiger_Yawning_Mudumalai_Mar21_DSC01305.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2763" data-file-height="2135" /></a><figcaption>A <a href="/wiki/Bengal_tiger" title="Bengal tiger">Bengal tiger</a> in <a href="/wiki/Mudumalai_National_Park" title="Mudumalai National Park">Mudumalai tiger reserve</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Project Tiger is headed by an additional director general (ADG) based at <a href="/wiki/New_Delhi" title="New Delhi">New Delhi</a> with regional offices at <a href="/wiki/Bangalore" class="mw-redirect" title="Bangalore">Bangalore</a>, <a href="/wiki/Guwahati" title="Guwahati">Guwahati</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nagpur" title="Nagpur">Nagpur</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-PT_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PT-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The wildlife habitats that fall under Project Tiger are categorized into different conservation units: <a href="/wiki/Siwalik_Hills" class="mw-redirect" title="Siwalik Hills">Shivalik-Terai</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_East_India" class="mw-redirect" title="North East India">North East</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sunderbans" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunderbans">Sunderbans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Western_ghats" class="mw-redirect" title="Western ghats">Western ghats</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Ghats" title="Eastern Ghats">Eastern ghats</a>, <a href="/wiki/Central_India" title="Central India">Central India</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sariska_Tiger_Reserve" title="Sariska Tiger Reserve">Sariska</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Function under the ambit of Project Tiger include protection of tiger habitats, daily monitoring, facilitating ecological development for local people in the buffer zones, voluntary relocation of people from core/critical tiger habitats and addressing human-wildlife conflicts. As a part of the project, state are provided assistance on curtailing poaching activities such as disseminating information on poachers, assisting in combing forest floor to check for traps and other anti-poaching activities, maintaining tiger database, providing grants and training for deployment of Special Tiger Protection Force.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Wireless_communication" class="mw-redirect" title="Wireless communication">Wireless communication</a> systems, <a href="/wiki/Infrared" title="Infrared">infrared</a> <a href="/wiki/Thermal_camera" class="mw-redirect" title="Thermal camera">thermal cameras</a> and <a href="/wiki/M-STrIPES" title="M-STrIPES">monitoring systems</a> have been developed within the tiger reserves to assist in patrol activities.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Challenges">Challenges</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Project_Tiger&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Challenges"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Project Tiger's efforts are hampered by <a href="/wiki/Poaching" title="Poaching">poaching</a>, <a href="/wiki/Deforestation" title="Deforestation">deforestation</a>, construction and irregularities in administration of certain reserves.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Forest_Rights_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="Forest Rights Act">Forest Rights Act</a> enacted by the Indian government in 2006 recognizes the rights of forest dwelling communities in the buffer zones. Some of the wildlife experts have questioned the implications of the same on tiger conservation as it will increase human-animal conflict and might give opportunities for poaching.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While others argue that this overlooks the reality of human-tiger coexistence and the abuse of power by authorities wherein local people who have been co-existing with the animals being evicted from their traditional lands rather than allowing them a proper role in decision-making to aid the tiger crisis.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Project_Tiger&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Indian_states_by_tiger_population" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Indian states by tiger population">List of Indian states by tiger population</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tiger_reserves_of_India" title="Tiger reserves of India">Tiger reserves of India</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tiger_poaching_in_India" title="Tiger poaching in India">Tiger poaching in India</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indian_Council_of_Forestry_Research_and_Education" title="Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education">Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Save_China%27s_Tigers" title="Save China's Tigers">Save China's Tigers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Project_Elephant" title="Project Elephant">Project Elephant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Project_Dolphin_(India)" title="Project Dolphin (India)">Project Dolphin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Project_Cheetah" class="mw-redirect" title="Project Cheetah">Project Cheetah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Big_Cat_Alliance" title="International Big Cat Alliance">International Big Cat Alliance</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Project_Tiger&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media 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