Project Tiger was launched in 1973 in India to ensure viable wild tiger populations by preserving their natural habitats. It created tiger reserves with core protected areas surrounded by buffer zones where limited human activities are allowed. While India once had 20,000-40,000 tigers, a 1995 census found only around 1,800 remaining, due to poaching and habitat loss. Project Tiger aims to eliminate human exploitation from core areas and reasonably manage buffer zones to help tiger populations recover.

2. PROJECT TIGER
• Project Tiger was launched in 1973 inIndia.
• The Project aims at ensuring a viable
population of tigers in their natural habitats
and preserving areas of biological importance
as a natural heritage for the people.
• The project's task force visualized these tiger
reserves as breeding nuclei, from which
surplus animals would emigrate to adjacent
forests.

4. The Indian tiger population at the turn of the 20th century was estimated at
20,000 to 40,000 individuals. The first country-wide tiger census conducted in
1995 estimated the population to comprise a little more than 1,800 individuals.
In 1973, the project was launched in Palamau Tiger Reserve, and various tiger
reserves were created in the country based on a 'core-buffer' strategy. For each
tiger reserve, management plans were drawn up based on the following
principles:
Elimination of all forms of human exploitation and biotic disturbance from the
core area and rationalization of activities in the buffer zone.
Restricting the habitat management only to repair the damages done to the
ecosystem by human and other interferences so as to facilitate recovery of the
ecosystem to its natural state.
Monitoring the faunal and floral changes over time and carrying out research
about wildlife.

5. PLANS
• Wildlife protection and crime risk management in the
present scenario requires a widely distributed
Information Network, using state-of-the-art information
and communication technology. This becomes all the
more important to ensure the desired level of
protection in field formations to safeguard the
impressive gains of a focused project like 'Project Tiger'.
• Space technology has shown the interconnectivity of
natural and anthropogenic phenomena occurring
anywhere on earth. Several tiger reserves are being
linked with the Project Tiger Directorate in the GIS
domain for Wildlife Crime Risk Management.

6. ENDANGERED TIGER

7. • India, being home to about 60% of the world's wild
tiger population, is now the best hope for tiger survival.
The Indian tiger is under severe pressure from habitat
reduction and poaching for Traditional Chinese
Medicine.
• With only 2000-3000 tigers left in severely fractured
habitats in India, there is a distinct threat that the wild
tiger could collapse into the extinction vortex in the
near future and disappear forever.

8. REASONS FOR DECREASE IN THEIR
NUMBER
• The major threat to TIGER population are
numerous, such as poaching for
trade,shrinking habitat,depletion of prey
based species ,growing human activities etc.
• The trade of the TIGER skin
and the use of their bones
in traditional medicines etc.

9. SAVE TIGERS
• Today there is still a will in the region to save the
tiger.
• Law in India sets tiger habitat aside, and
significant financial resources are committed
every year by the governments to save the tiger.
• There are 22 tiger reserves and many more
national parks and sanctuaries.
• Our focus is on wild tigers and we do not
support captive breeding of tigers - they are big
cats in cages that would never survive if
released into the wild.

10. FACT ABOUT TIGERS
• One of the most fascinating facts about the wild tiger is the extremely
close and extended bond between the tigress and her cubs. A tiger
learns every survival skill from its mother - which can not happen if they
are fed in cages. If we preserve their habitat, they will live. Probably the
most important reason for saving the wild tiger - being at the top of food
chain, her survival means the survival of all other species that live in her
habitat and preserving the complex relationships within an ecosystem
that was created by Nature and that can not be recreated by man.

11. THANK YOU