INTERNATIONAL TIGER DAY – 29 July 2019

 

For: Preliminary & Mains

Topics covered: International Tiger Day, Census report of tigers, Future threat to tigers, Royal Bengal Tiger

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News Flash

It is also known as Global Tiger Day.

• Every year, July 29 is celebrated as International Tiger Day.
• Its objective is to raise awareness about the decline of wild tiger numbers and to encourage the work of Tiger conservation.
• The Day was first established in 2010 at Saint Petersburg Tiger Summit in Russia.
• In the Summit, a declaration was made that Governments of tiger populated countries had vowed to double the tiger population by 2020.

 

Highlights

• Prime Minister launched a census report of tigers in India.
• The report- ‘The Tiger Estimation Report 2018’ is data about tigers in India.
• India has already achieved the target of doubling the numbers of the tiger population as per the target is given in St. Petersburg nine years ago.
• The Tiger Estimation Report 2018 said that 2967 tigers are present in India.
• As per the report, the highest number of tigers have found in Madhya Pradesh (526).
• After that Karnataka has 524 and Uttarakhand is accommodating 442 tigers.
• According to the report, Project Tiger to conserve Royal Bengal Tigers in the wild, are seen to be generally successful.
• Project Tiger was launched in 1973 when studies found that numbers of Indian Tigers are rapidly declining.
• Project Tiger is administrated by the National Tiger Conservation Authority.

 

Royal Bengal Tiger

• The Bengal tiger is found primarily in India with smaller populations in Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, China and Myanmar.
• It is the most numerous of all tiger subspecies with more than 2,500 left in the wild.
• The creation of India’s tiger reserves in the 1970s helped to stabilize numbers.
• Poaching to meet growing demand from Asia in recent years has once again put the Bengal tiger at risk.

 

Future threats

• Fifty years from now, by 2070, the entire Bengal tigers population in the Sundarbans is likely to be lost to climate change and sea-level rise, according to a modelling study by a team of researchers from Bangladesh and Australia.
• The Sundarbans are the world’s single-largest mangrove ecosystem still in existence, spanning a vast area of more than 6,000 sq km.
• Almost 70 percent of the Sundarbans are currently within a metre of actual sea level.
• Rising water levels are a significant threat to low-lying areas, and the tiger habitats of Sundarbans are particularly vulnerable to it.

 

Source: First Post

 

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