Cutting Edge Conservation

Sanctuary Asia

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The sight of a wild tiger is a life-changing experience. But to make wildlife tourism a truly meaningful support for conservation, it is vital that the communities living around reserves become the first beneficiaries of tourism income.

Bittu Sahgal discusses this in his column, Cutting Edge Conservation. You can read it here http://bit.ly/X2gqaM

Photocredit: Jayanth Sharma

 

Children in the Himalayas of Northern India – Snow Leopard Trust

 Snow Leopard Trust

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Each year, more than 150 children in the Himalayas of northern India attend our Eco-Camps where they develop values towards nature and conservation. Learn more at http://www.snowleopard.org/learn/community-based-conservation/conservation-education-programs

 

Growing Human population puts tremendous biotic pressure on Tiger Habitat.

 ROARrrrr for Jungle Tiger

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For centuries humans and wild animals have co-existed in India. This is mainly because the human populations were much lower and the forest areas were large. However, over the past few decades, the human population has grown manifold, thereby creating great pressure on forest resources. The habitat destruction and deforestation are growing at a rapid pace.

An recent estimation puts India to 1,220,200,000 (1.22 billion) people is the second most populous country in the world.Large areas on which the forests were vast and undisturbed have given way to human habitations and settlements. Grazing by domestic cattle in forest areas has resulted in disease out-breaks among wild herbivores, and also reduced availability of fodder, forcing wild herbivores to depredate crops that adjoin forests.

With rapid increase in population, man, who is instinctively desirous of possessions, is stretching towards the forests and destroying the richness of fauna in the jungles.
For this, both the Government as well as the Citizens of India is to blame. They have never thought of determining the limits of expansion of urbanisation. Perhaps, the general feeling is, ‘bigger the better’……
( Even the dense forest gets converted into cities at his bid, the human being snatches even the dwellings of the birds)

Please, Control population explosion.