Save the Tiger

Recently a TV commercial storm the all the channel across the India appreciable initiative taken by Aircel many big faces shown, committing their willingness to protect this incredible animal. According to them only 1411 left in the Jungle, Unfortunately Government not providing the actual figures as per the sources 1411 are the adult tigers living in the jungle (plus cubs and uncounted tiger in Sunderban) still no is still not very encouraging so its better we should not get in to Figure . We together have to put immense effort to save this animal our jungles and ultimately ourselves.

At the time of independence approx tiger figure were 80000 in wild, the hunting in the Jungle was legal. License to kill given to the Rajgharna’s These kings even they had lost theirs kingdoms but still free for the hunting just for their hobby and pride and even to entrain the guest they used to organize hunting in the jungle a group of 100 people with all equipment use to go in the jungle using gun killing wild animals specially carnivorous and killing the tiger is biggest achievement. During this period Indian wild life suffered huge damage which will never going to refill. As per sources one so called King reportedly killed 140 tiger in one week single trip in the Jungle

Finally in 1972 Late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi came up with Wildlife Protection Act which stop this killings openly. It was the first step towards the tiger she had given some funds and forms Tiger reserve in India, She was the first and the only Prime minister who had kept a single to day in year to visit the reserves and meet the Directors of the Parks. First success story came in first two years only from Ranthambore National Park and Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan. Director Fatheh Singh Rathod showed PM first pic of the babies after the ACT. Indira was the only PM who visited Tiger reserve on the Elephant back and seen actual tigers in the Jungle after that it took around 40 years for another PM to visit the reserve Dr. Manmohan Singh in his first spell visited Sariska Tiger reserve that time park authority managed to showed PM two tigers in the Jungle currently no tiger has been spotted in the reserve for last one year might be killed by the poachers. In the financial budget of 2008 FM Chidambaram 50 Crores for the project tiger after that no follow on that money no more money comes in the last two budgets.

Even the media is not putting any attention this money.

Presently in all over India 41 tiger reserve are been governed by the Project Tiger

My interest develop towards this issue when myself first visited Ranthambore National Park and Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan in Feb. 2007 unable to see any tiger in the park except some pug marks but meeting with the ex. director Mr. Fatheh Singh Rathod came to know the exact issue and concern about the issue and practical difficulties for the govt skims to get the implemented in the area. Human and wild animal conflict is the still biggest concern of the project still many villages and human population still stays inside the boundary of the National park