Desperate to save the dwindling tiger numbers, six countries have sought help from India in replicating its nearly four decade old tiger conservation programme - Project Tiger.
Six Tiger range countries - Russia, China, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar and Vietnam - approached India for help in either assesment or capacity building measure for tiger conservation in their own countries.
They approached Indian officials during the Stock Taking Conference to review implementation of the Global Tiger Recovery Program (GTRP), which took place in New Delhi a couple of weeks ago.
“India's tiger conservation program, running since 1970s, has been very successful." National Tiger Conservation Authority's (NTCA) member secretary Rajesh Gopal told DNA.
“Cooperation with these countries would provide India an opportunity to come to the centre stage of tiger conservation and even come out with a tiger atlas of the world," said Gopal while informing that India and Russia recently came up with a joint resolution of agreed action to protect tigers. Read the full report here.
Source: by DNA Correspondent, DNA, Mumbai.
