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February 6th, 2010 
admin According to sources, India had an estimated 40,000 tigers in the wild. In 2002, based on pug mark census, this number was 3,642. As per the monitoring exercise by Wildlife Institute of India in organization with National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), Government of India using camera traps, in 2008 we were left with only 1,411 tigers. This number is so small that they will be gone soon whether we don’t wake up to the crisis.
WWF-India aims for a strategic and focused approach in its tiger conservation efforts. Our goal is to restore, maintain and guard tigers as well as their habitat and prey base in vital tiger landscapes in India.
The objectives are to:
· Guard, restore corridors to ensure connectivity between tiger habitats while ensuring that human-tiger conflicts are reduced.
· Reduce pressures on the tiger habitats by promoting alternative livelihoods for local communities in and around tiger habitats.
· Make incentives for local communities as well as state and regional government and opinion-makers to support tiger conservation.
· Enhance capacities of the Forest Department to control poaching of tigers and prey species.
· Provide policy inputs at state and central levels to ensure effective measures for conservation of tigers and their habitats.
· Promote the political will as well as well loved support within all sectors of society for tiger conservation.
What you can do to save the tiger?
The tiger is not fair a charismatic species. It’s not fair a wild animal living in some forest either. The tiger is a unique animal which plays a pivotal role in the health and diversity of an ecosystem. It is a summit predator and is at the apex of the food chain and keeps the population of wild ungulates in check, thereby maintaining the balance between prey herbivores and the vegetation upon which they feed. Therefore the presence of tigers in the forest is an indicator of the well being of the ecosystem. The extinction of this summit predator is an indication that
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