Project Tiger:Basics Explained

India marked 50 years of Project Tiger on April 1, 2023. It was on April 1, 1973, that this conservation programme to save the then-vanishing population of the Bengal tiger in India was launched.

National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has accorded in-principle approval.Feb 2023, to Odisha government’s proposal to declare Debrigarh Wildlife Sanctuary as a tiger reserve (TR). It is now for the government to officially issue a notification to this effect. Once it is done, Debrigarh will be the third tiger reserve of the state.

In Oct 2021, NTCA also  approved Chhattisgarh’s proposal to declare the combined areas of the Tamor Pingla Wildlife Sanctuary and the Guru Ghasidas National Park as a Tiger Reserve.

The new Reserve, located in the state’s north, borders Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh. This will be Chhattisgarh’s fourth Tiger Reserve after the Udanti-Sitanadi, Achanakmar, and Indravati Reserves.

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The All India Tiger Estimation 2018 survey has entered the Guinness World Record for being the world’s largest camera trap wildlife survey.

India has 2,967 tigers, a third more than in 2014, according to results of a tiger census made public on July 29,2019. Madhya Pradesh saw the highest number of tigers at 526, closely followed by Karnataka (524) and Uttarakhand (442).

  • Corbett Tiger Reserve in Uttarakhand has the highest number of 231 big cats in the country
  • Nagarhole and Bandipore reserves in Karnataka have 127 and 126 tigers.
  • Three are no tigers left in Mizoram’s Dampa, West Bengal’s Buxa and Jharkhand’s Palamau reserves

                 Traditionally eight sub-species of tigers have been recognized, out of which three are extinct. The Indian sub-species is Panthera tigris ; Bengal tiger.

                  The tiger is the largest member of the  (cat) family.Tigers are terminal consumers in the ecological food pyramid, and their conservation results in the conservation of all trophic levels in an ecosystem.

                Project Tiger is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Government of India which was launched on the 1st of April, 1973 for in-situ conservation of wild tigers in designated tiger reserves. Project Tiger is being implemented in these States in collaboration with the respective State Governments.  The challenges include: protection against poaching, fragmentation of habitat, securing inviolate space for tiger to facilitate its social dynamics, addressing tiger-human interface, restoration of corridors and eliciting public support of local people by providing ecologically sustainable options.

List of Tiger Reserves Core 

Sl.   No.Name of Tiger ReserveState
1BandipurKarnataka
2CorbettUttarakhand
Amangarh (buffer of Corbett TR)Uttar Pradesh
3KanhaMadhya Pradesh
4ManasAssam
5MelghatMaharashtra
6PalamauJharkhand
7RanthamboreRajasthan
8SimilipalOdisha
9SunderbansWest Bengal
10PeriyarKerala
11SariskaRajasthan
12BuxaWest Bengal
13IndravatiChhattisgarh
14NamdaphaArunachal Pradesh
15DudhwaUttar Pradesh
16Kalakad-MundanthuraiTamil Nadu
17ValmikiBihar
18PenchMadhya Pradesh
19Tadoba-AndhariMaharashtra
20BandhavgarhMadhya Pradesh
21PannaMadhya Pradesh
22DampaMizoram
23BhadraKarnataka
24PenchMaharashtra
25PakkeArunachal Pradesh
26NameriAssam
27SatpuraMadhya Pradesh
28AnamalaiTamil Nadu
29Udanti-SitanadiChattisgarh
30SatkosiaOdisha
31KazirangaAssam
32AchanakmarChattisgarh
33Dandeli-AnshiKarnataka
34Sanjay-DubriMadhya Pradesh
35MudumalaiTamil Nadu
36NagaraholeKarnataka
37ParambikulamKerala
38SahyadriMaharashtra
39Biligiri Ranganatha TempleKarnataka
40KawalTelangana
41SathyamangalamTamil Nadu
42Mukandra HillsRajasthan
43Nawegaon-NagziraMaharashtra
44Nagarjunsagar Srisailam (part)*Andhra Pradesh
45AmrabadTelangana
46PilibhitUttar Pradesh
47BorMaharashtra
48Rajaji Tige ReserveUttarakhand
49Orang Tiger ReserveAssam
50   51Kamlang Tiger Reserve   Srivilliputhur MegamalaiArunachal Pradesh   Tamil Nadu

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