Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level : Tiger corridors in India
Mains level : Conservation of tigers in India
The Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change has informed about the Tiger corridors in Country in Lok Sabha.
Tiger corridors in India
- The National Tiger Conservation Authority in collaboration with the Wildlife Institute of India has mapped out 32 major corridors across the country.
- These are operationalised through a Tiger Conservation Plan, mandated under section 38V of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.
- The list of macro/landscape level tiger corridors are as under:
| Sl. No. | Landscape | Corridor | States/ Country |
| 1. | Shivalik Hills & Gangetic Plains | (i) Rajaji-Corbett | Uttarakhand |
| (ii) Corbett-Dudhwa | Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Nepal | ||
| (iii) Dudhwa-Kishanpur Katerniaghat | Uttar Pradesh, Nepal | ||
| 2. | Central India & Eastern Ghats | (i) Ranthambhore-Kuno-Madhav | Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan |
| (ii) Bandhavgarh-Achanakmar | Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh | ||
| (iii) Bandhavgarh-Sanjay Dubri-Guru Ghasidas | Madhya Pradesh | ||
| (iv) Guru Ghasidas-Palamau-Lawalong | Chhattisgarh & Jharkhand | ||
| (v) Kanha-Achanakmar | Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh | ||
| (vi) Kanha-Pench | Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra | ||
| (vii) Pench-Satpura-Melghat | Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra | ||
| (viii) Kanha-Navegaon Nagzira-Tadoba-Indravati | Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh | ||
| (ix) Indravati-Udanti Sitanadi-Sunabeda | Chhattisgarh, Odisha | ||
| (x) Similipal-Satkosia | Odisha | ||
| (xi) Nagarjunasagar-Sri Venkateshwara National Park | Andhra Pradesh | ||
| 3. | Western Ghats | (i) Sahyadri-Radhanagari-Goa | Maharashtra, Goa |
| (ii) Dandeli Anshi-Shravathi Valley | Karnataka | ||
| (iii) Kudremukh-Bhadra | Karnataka | ||
| (iv) Nagarahole-Pusphagiri-Talakavery | Karnataka | ||
| (v) Nagarahole-Bandipur-Mudumalai-Wayanad | Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu | ||
| (vi) Nagarahole-Mudumalai-Wayanad | Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu | ||
| (vii) Parambikulam-Eranikulam-Indira Gandhi | Kerala, Tamil Nadu | ||
| (viii) Kalakad Mundanthurai-Periyar | Kerala, Tamil Nadu | ||
| 4. | North East | (i) Kaziranga-Itanagar WLS | Assam, Arunachal Pradesh |
| (ii) Kaziranga-Karbi Anglong | Assam | ||
| (iii) Kaziranga-Nameri | Assam | ||
| (iv) Kaziranga-Orang | Assam | ||
| (v) Kaziranga-Papum Pane | Assam | ||
| (vi) Manas-Buxa | Assam, West Bengal, Bhutan | ||
| (vii) Pakke-Nameri-Sonai Rupai-Manas | Arunachal Pradesh, Assam | ||
| (viii) Dibru Saikhowa-D’Ering-Mehaong | Assam, Arunachal Pradesh | ||
| (ix) Kamlang-Kane-Tale Valley | Arunachal Pradesh | ||
| (x) Buxa-Jaldapara | West Bengal |
Back2Basics
Project Tiger
- Project Tiger is a tiger conservation programme launched in April 1973 by during PM Indira Gandhi’s tenure.
- It is administered by the National Tiger Conservation Authority.
- The project aims at ensuring a viable population of Bengal tigers in their natural habitats, protecting them from extinction, and preserving areas of biological importance as a natural heritage forever represented as close as possible the diversity of ecosystems across the distribution of tigers in the country.
- The project’s task force visualized these tiger reserves as breeding nuclei, from which surplus animals would migrate to adjacent forests.
- The government has set up a Tiger Protection Force to combat poachers and funded relocation of villagers to minimize human-tiger conflicts.