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KOLKATA: Sanctuary magazine, Bengal Tiger Line & Wildlife Conservation Trust's Bengal Tiger Bachaao campaign organised a five-day awareness campaign to save the tiger. The campaign Bagher Jonyo Haatun' (walk for the tiger) that began on November 9, came to an end on Friday.
It covered 15 villages adjacent to the Sundarban Tiger Reserve. The prime objective was to create awareness among the villagers to cooperate with the forest department and work hand in hand with it while tackling critical situation like tigers straying into villages. In the recent past there have been several such incidents at villages near the forest. It also encouraged villagers to plant mangroves.
Folk artists from Orissa's Ganjam district performed tiger dance, adding colour to the initiative. Around 15000 people, including students, teachers, NGO workers, panchayat officials and foresters were present.
Kathmandu: Nepal Sunday pledged to increase its tiger population from current 300 to 600 by the beginning of the next decade with intensified conservation efforts and steps to control poaching.Nepal is a major target for the World WildlifeFund’s (WWF) Tx2 campaign to save the declining tiger population. It has become a transit point between China and India for illegal tiger poaching, according to experts.
There are some 121 breeding tiger population in Nepal and the total number of tigers are estimated to be 300, said Anil Manandhar, country director of WWF Nepal, during a press meet organized to launch the 'save tiger' campaign.
Despite the decade-long conflict that made conservation efforts tougher, Nepal has maintained the tiger population from 123 in 1998 to 221 in 2010, he said.
"We need to focus on three things to increase the tiger population, proper management of tiger habitat, preservation of tigers' prey animals and controlling illegal poaching," he pointed out.
WWF Nepal underlined that Nepal needs cooperation from the international community to control tiger poaching. Over the past one decade, tiger habitat has witnessed 40 percent loss and the tiger population has halved. Tiger population has declined from more than 100,000 in the beginning of the 20th century to 3,200 at present.
NEW DELHI: 1,411 -- that's the number on the lips of Indian celebrities fronting a new campaign to save tigers which was launched ahead of the Chinese lunar Year of the Tiger -- a time some conservationists fear will lead to a spike in demand for the endangered animal's body parts.
"Just 1,411 left. You can make a difference," is the message being broadcast on everything from TV adverts,
Facebook and YouTube, in what organisers say is India's biggest ever campaign to conserve the dwindling numbers of its national animal.
Conservation has not hitherto been seen as a big vote winner in India, where hundreds of millions live below the poverty line.
"I hope some of this could be transferred into votes, and politicians realise that the public now wants tiger conservation across India, and the tiger conservation gets more focus throughout India."
India is a key player in efforts to boost the global tiger population, which numbers just a few thousand and some wildlife experts say could be extinct in 20 years.
"All these things have been tried before," Belinda Wright, director of the Wildlife Protection Society of India, said of the multimedia campaign. "I think the difference with this particular campaign is that it has brought all the elements together ... the coverage has been fantastic."
"They're not telling anybody anything new. But what they're doing is creating a constituency which will then create political will," she added.
India's Environment Minister said at the end of last year that Indian tigers were in a "very, very precarious" state and could be wiped out in nearly half the country's tiger reserves.
Conservationists say the trade in skin and bones is booming to countries such as China, which has banned the use of tiger parts in medicine but where everything from fur to whiskers to eyeballs to bones, are still used.
The campaign was timely ahead of China's Year of the Tiger, which begins on Sunday and which India fears will spur poachers and smugglers operating in its forests to capitalise on increased demand for tiger parts during the lunar new year.
Tiger skins sell as rugs and cloaks on the black market, and can fetch up to $20,000 in countries like China.
New Delhi has been a vocal critic of the Chinese use of tiger parts in medicine, and wants its neighbour to phase out tiger farms it says violate international agreements.
*India's 38th tiger reserve opens :
PALAKKAD (Kerala): India's 38th tiger reserve and Kerala's second was Friday declared open by environment and forests minister Jairam Ramesh. It would be known as the Parambikulam Tiger Reserve.
There has been a sharp decline in the number of tigers in India, with only 1,411 of them left, according to official estimates.
The tiger reserve was known as the Parambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary when it was set up in 1973 in a 285-sq-km protected area in Chittur area of Palakkad.
Another 358 sq km of forests were added, and the tiger reserve now has an area of 643 sq km.
It has a rich diversity of animal life. It also has a variety of trees, including teak, neem, sandalwood and rosewood. Kerala's first tiger reserve -- Periyar Tiger Reserve -- is situated in Thekkadi in Idukki district.
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Forget the environment. The Indian Tiger is the new ‘cool cause’ for Bollywood celebrities and youngsters.
Since the launch of the World Wildlife Fund’s Save Our Tiger campaign, everyone is talking about Stripey, the baby tiger in the video and the diminishing numbers of India’s national animal.
The campaign site has 56,400 members, with hundreds joining every hour and fan groups have cropped up all over the Internet.
Besides, MS Dhoni, captain Indian cricket team, who is one of the faces of the campaign, filmmaker Kunal Kohli has been writing about it on microblogging site Twitter. “Save tigers, donate to the right causes, spread awareness to stop poaching, give money for causes that help breeding,” wrote Kohli.
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Please save our Tigers. It's our property & our responsibility. Otherwise we all die because natural balance will be destroyed. So let’s do something and save your own life.
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