40 tiger projects are there in maharashtra.
40 tiger projects are there in maharashtra.
how many tiger projects are there in maharashtra?
40
as of 2017 there are 537 wildlife sanctuaries in india and 41 in maharashtra. wildlife sanctuaries, national parks and project tiger reserves have been created in maharashtra, with the aim of conserving the rich bio-diversity of the region. as of 2017, india has 103 national parks, of which six are located in maharashtra.there are 50 tiger reserve in india and 6 project tiger areas in maharashtra. viz tadoba-andhari, melghat, nagazira ,sahyadri ,bor and pench. a large percentage of maharashtra's forests and wildlife lie along the western ghats or western maharashtra and eastern vidarbha.
geography of maharashtra
panthera is a conservation organization that’s main goal is to preserve wild cats focusing on tigers, lions, snow leopards, and jaguars. in july 2006, panthera collaborated with the wildlife conservation society (wcs) to form tigers forever, one of their main tiger projects. tigers forever plans to increase the number of tigers in key areas by 50% over ten years. key areas include: india, myanmar, thailand, laos, malaysia and indonesia. this project is experimental and hopes to increase the number of tigers by eliminating human threats and monitoring tiger and prey populations. to accomplish these goals they are increasing the amount and quality of law enforcement in these areas and working with informants to catch poachers. another project spearheaded by panthera is the tiger corridor initiative (tci). human development in the tiger range countries (trc) has left many tiger habitats fragmented. habitat fragmentation leads to a division of tiger populations, which reduces the gene pool and makes it difficult for tigers to reproduce. the tci is a new project, very similar to the terai-arc landscape (tal) project that plans to link protected core populations of tigers with one another using corridors that will provide safe passage for tigers. this will give the separated tiger populations access to each other, which in theory should increase the number of tigers as well as genetic diversity.
tiger conservation