This write-up is contributed by Sweta Chakraborty.
29th July is known as Tiger conservation day. The present population of tigers in India is 2967 while it was 1411 in 2006. The India Government had engaged Special Forces for conserving the population of tigers in India. With lots of effort, India now has almost 70% of the global population of tigers. Whatever those dark stripes on the light-colored body would simply evoke a spark in the dense forest. They are a keystone species and the entire ecosystem would collapse without their presence. The presence of tigers is important and it proves to be beneficial to climate, people, and wildlife.
- Saving tigers, forest land, and grasslands: The tigers are deeply connected with the forests. They are a predator and represent majestic wildlife and a sign of a healthy ecosystem. Tigers are assigned to large hectares of land where they are free to hunt for prey. A tiger conservation area has a lot of economic advantages.
- Helping to sustain the future of a multitude of wildlife: As we all know that there is a pyramid of life, with the herbivores in the down strata. The tigers are helping in maintaining a healthy forest land as they maintain the number of herbivores. By controlling the number of herbivores, the forest land gets conserved.
- A cultural icon for millions to be conserved: A tiger is symbolic and represents many places in our mythology and culture as such. A child learns about a tiger and its habitat. Imagine if he can’t see the beautiful creature his life could be incomplete. We as a country can’t afford to lose a beautiful wild animal completely.
- Significant for a climatic change: The tiger conservation area has more carbon than any other place on this earth. The forests of Asia are the lands where there are high stores of carbon and that’s enough for the world.
- Economic advantage for the community: While the government is conserving the land for the big cats, there are arrangements to save the habitat, especially the fish nurseries and the agricultural lands.
Presently the tigers are being restricted to around 7% of the original range. The WWF India definitely created a safer haven for the tigers. In 1971 the Indian government started a project called the Project Tiger, a conservation program aimed to conserve the population of tigers. India has remarkably made a point in proving that tigers are our national pride and remain so in the future.
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