Centre To Fund 90 Percent Of Project Tiger In Northeast

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First published in Sanctuary Asia, Vol. 32 No. 5, May 2012

This was recently conveyed by Union Minister of State for Environment & Forests Jayanthi Natarajan to Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi.

According to the communication, the northeastern states will now have to spend only 10 percent share under the scheme for tiger conservation.

Project Tiger aims at ensuring a viable population of tigers in their natural habitat.

There are six tiger reserves in the northeast - three in Assam (Kaziranga tiger reserve, Manas tiger reserve and Nameri tiger reserve), two in Arunachal Pradesh (Namdapha tiger reserve and Pakhui tiger reserve) and one in Mizoram (Dampa tiger reserve). Read the full report here.

Source: News Track India, Guwahati.

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