Talking About Green

1411…1411…This is the talk of the town nowadays. From a good fat figure of 40,000, presently it has come to 1411. You are wondering what this number is about. This is the number which is indicating the sooner extinction of the tiger community in India.

Pug mark census in 2002, said that there were 3642 tigers but this was reduced to 1411 in 2008. There are 37 tiger sanctuaries in India but 17 of them are in the verge of losing the tigers. Serious efforts are to be made to conserve the tigers.

Tiger is not only a wild animal but a species that maintains the ecological balance.

WWF-India is making serious efforts to maintain, protect and also restore some of the species and their habitats.

Some steps have to be taken to protect the tigers:

1. People must be made aware of the reduction in the number of tigers.
2. They must be encouraged to conserve them.
3. Those living near the tiger habitats must be provided alternative livelihoods in some other place.
4. The Forest Departments must be vested with more powers to control poaching of the tigers.
5. Proper and effective measures have to be framed to conserve the tigers and their habitats.
6. Support from all the sectors have to be gathered to protect them.
7. The tourists have to be responsible and should not aim to harm the animal for their pleasure.
8. The citizens must be equally responsible in reporting any poaching or illegal trade of the animal to the respective authorities which will check such acts.

Remember if you are saving one tiger, you are protecting 100sq.km of area and other species living in the area. You are not only saving the National Animal but also the life span of the humans because the nature’s balance will be maintained if the tigers are alive and other ecological requirements like fresh and clean air, water, temperature regulation and pollination etc will be available to the mankind.

Let’s allow our children and the coming generations to remember the tigers.