this weeks' article
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“Leave Me Alone” …. That’s what the Tiger would tell us if it could speak, while, scores of issues, their redresses, suggestions, regulations and manipulations revolve around the term ‘tiger conservation.’
The reasons are very obvious. Mining, Deforestation , Poaching , Encroachment and unregulated tourism are the main causes the Tiger is failing to survive and grow in numbers.
It is this approach with this an organization ‘Save The Tiger’ is jointly raising with a leading wildlife magazine of India for this Global Tiger Day. As July 29 approaches, environmentalists across the Globe are busy with campaigns to observe the Global Tiger Day. In tiger states of India, such campaigns play more vital role as this is the country making share to almost two third presence of total tigers surviving on this earth.
With much popularity, the tiger reserves of Madhya Pradesh still top the lists as wildlife destination, though the State has lost its tiger state status to Karnataka. The organization and the magazine are eyeing upon such interests from Madhya Pradesh, which could boost up their campaign to each individual level.
Sharing the same, Sanctuary Asia soul driven by Bittu Sahagal, views “We need enthusiasts to help reach the voice of the tiger to people across the world. “LEAVE ME ALONE” is such one single Save the Tiger strategy which could save the big cat. The tiger does not need our dams. It does not need our mines. It does not need our roads running through its forests. It does need protection from poachers. It does need planners and politicians to accept the value of the water, climate control and soil fertility services its forests offer. It does need communities living around its home to be the prime beneficiaries of tourism.”
It has been shared by wildlife experts with their experience gained so far around the world suggests that people’s livelihoods and their ability to be meaningfully involved in conservation planning and practice are critical to environmental and nature conservation.
The restoration of tiger corridors and habitat is enormous in magnitude and requires new approaches and ideas, especially in dealing with the human aspect of this undertaking. The relocation of only critical villages is possible. This too would need their express willingness and an attractive package. For the rest of the villages, a wide range of confidence-building measures, from sustainable livelihoods, poverty alleviation and health improvement programmes to employment generation and socio-cultural upliftment, need to be undertaken.
While ecological restoration is the unquestionable domain of the forest department, the harnessing of the talent and expertise of prominent non-governmental organisations in programmes related to human development is also important. Village- and site-specific micro-planning in consultation with target villagers themselves is absolutely essential and can only be overlooked at the peril of even a semblance of the success of this restoration programme.
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