| "Project Tiger provides real hope
for the survival of the striped predator in India. The Prime
Minister of India has made a personal promise to save the tiger.
And we now have over one million 'Kids for Tigers' around India
who have sworn to help save the cat.
Saving the tiger is also in India's best national interests because its forests are the sources of our finest, purest rivers and lakes.
Together we can and will save the tiger."
- Rajesh Gopal, Director, Project Tiger
E-mail: rajeshgopal@vsnl.net
Project Tiger was launched in 1973 with nine tiger reserves covering an area
of 16,339 sq.km., which has increased to 37,761 sq.km. in
27 Tiger Reserves. The budgetary provision of the Government
of India during 1973 was only Rs. 23 million, which has increased
to 230 million during 2000-2001.
How many tigers survive
in India today?
How many of the surviving
tigers live in Project Tiger Reserves?
Details of India's Project Tiger
Reserves:
Bandhavgarh
(23°39'N/ 81°02'E - see map)
Bandipur
Bhadra
Buxa
Corbett
Dampa
Dudhwa
Indravati
Kalakad-Mundanthurai
Kanha
Manas
Melghat
Nagarjunasagar
Namdapha
Palamau
Panna
Pench (Madhya Pradesh)
Pench (Maharashtra)
Periyar
Ranthambhore
Sariska
Similipal
Sundarbans
Tadoba-Andhari
Valmiki
The Pakhui-Nameri interstate reserve in Arunachal Pradesh
and Assam and Bori-Satpura in Madhya Pradesh have been added
in 1999 to the Project Tiger network.
Source: Project Tiger Status Report 2001,
Project Tiger, Ministry of Environment and Forests,
Government of India, New Delhi.
For more information visit the Project
Tiger website.
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