Following the enormous success of ‘Venture Tiger’ in India which has seen an exponential rise in the numbers of mountainous cats, the Centre is mulling translocating about a of these majestic animals to Cambodia the put it has turn out to be extinct.
Cambodia final reported the sighting of a tiger in 2007 when it turned into caught on a jungle camera entice. After India successfully translocated a batch of African cheetahs final September, a memorandum of working out turned into moreover signed with Cambodia in November to help with the reintroduction of tigers in the Southeast Asian nation.
“The translocation of our tigers to Cambodia is beneath consideration. This has never been done in India sooner than, even although we have been translocating tigers within the country as and when it has been required,” acknowledged S P Yadav, member secretary, National Tiger Conservation Authority, relating to the translocation of tigers from Corbett (Uttarakhand) to Rajaji National Park.
“We’ve sent a delegation there [Cambodia], they’ve sent a delegation here. We are examining the train in Cambodia to search if tiger translocation could doubtless be done.”
The officer added that in pronounce to place the translocation that you have to doubtless doubtless contemplate of, the authorities are learning if the components that ended in the extinction of tigers in the first discipline were resolved or no longer.
Next month will tag the Fiftieth anniversary of Venture Tiger which started in 1973 at the Corbett nationwide park. Indian High Minister Narendra Modi is anticipated to help a conference in Mysore and laud the efforts of natural world conservation activists and officers involved while releasing tiger census knowledge for 2022.
Pondering the six per cent annual enhance seen in the population of tigers in the outdated couple of years, some experts notify that it could per chance maybe doubtless no longer be ruled out that the numbers could doubtless also merely have swelled previous 3,500, per 2022 Tiger census findings.
After India reached an alarming stage of handiest 1,411 mountainous cats in 2006, following the vanishing of tigers in the Sariska reserve in the northern Indian explain of Rajasthan, successive governments stepped up the protection programmes,
Since then, a necessary development has been seen and currently, India harbours 70 per cent of the worldwide population of tigers.
(With inputs from companies)
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