Nagpur: Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav said that people who depend on natural resources are an important aspect of tiger conservation and ‘community agenda’ exploring the ‘tiger agenda’ in India.
“Tiger, the top predators in the ecosystem, are very important in managing and perpetuating ecological processes.
Ensuring this top carnivorous conservation guarantees the welfare of forested ecosystems, biodiversity they represent, and water and climate security,” Yadav said.
The Minister speaks at the 4th Asian Minister’s Conference on Tiger Conservation, an important event to review progress towards the Global Tiger Recovery Program (GTRP) and commitment to tiger conservation.
The minister said that India would facilitate the Kisaran Tiger countries to finalize the New Delhi Declaration for the Global Tiger (GTS) summit to be held at Vladivostok, Russia later this year.
The “Pre-Tiger Summit” meeting was held in Delhi in 2010, where the declaration draft on the tiger conservation for GTS was resolved.
Stating that India has achieved extraordinary achievements doubling the tiger population in 2018 itself – four years before the year targeted in 2022 – Yadav said the successful model of Indian Tiger Governance is now replicated for lions, dolphins, leopards, dolphins, Leopard, Leopard Snow and other small wild cats, while this country is on the threshold to introduce the cheetah in its historical range.
The Minister said the budget allocation for tiger conservation has increased from RS185 Crore in 2014 to RS300 Crore in 2022, and added that 14 tiger reserves in India have been awarded global conservation standards guaranteed (CA | TS) accreditation and effort to bring more reserves Tiger Under CA Accreditation | TS.
The minister said that India’s frontline staff was an important pillar of the conservation of the tiger and hence the Ministry had extended the lives cover of RS2 Lakh for each contract worker / while under the e-Shram, a recent initiative from the Ministry of Manpower and Work, and RS5 Lakhen, and RS5 lak lid below ayushman yojana.
“About 4.3 million working days of work are produced by 51 tiger reserves in India and funds from Fund Management Compensation and Planning Authority (Campa) are being used to promote resettlement of voluntary villages from the core area of tiger reserves,” said Yadav.
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Highlighting an organized hunting increase driven by international demand for tiger body parts and products, depletion of tiger prey, and loss of habitat as a major challenge for tiger conservation, Yadav said the status of Wild Tiger continues to be an endangered country and there are countries specific and specific areas It also affects the tiger and hence, the situation calls for active international cooperation and co-adaptive and active management.
In India, tigers occupy various habitats ranging from high mountains, mangroves, swamps, high grasslands, to dried and humid autumn forests, and green forest systems.
Based on this, tigers are not only conservation icons but also umbrella species for the majority of ecosystems in the Indian sub-continent.
India is one member of the founding platform between the Government of Tiger Range – Global Tiger Forum (GTF), and for years, GTF has expanded its program in various thematic fields, while working closely with the government, Tiger and Tiger Range countries country.
Tigers guarantees the welfare of the forest ecosystem: YADAV
